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...listening to Girl Talk’s mashes aren’t incentive enough, there will be glowsticks. Yes, you read right: Glowsticks! Tonight’s rally will feature appearances by the Harvard Kroks, the Harvard Cheerleading Team, the Harvard Marching Band, the Harvard Football Team, and the Black Men’s Forum steppers. And lots of people who have never been to a pep rally before. “I’ve seen some of the stuff they are going to do and it’s going to be absolutely stellar,” says...
...department is located in an intimate area on the second floor of the Barker Center. Some walls are covered in accolades for faculty members and students. Others are adorned with photographs of luminaries including W.E.B DuBois, Richard Wright, and Frederick Douglass. Still others are hung with more than 30 black and white portraits of Harvard’s first black students...
...Wednesday November 4, 2008, Barack H. Obama was elected President of the United States, making him the first African-American to hold our nation’s highest post. A black man had achieved what months ago was considered impossible, and he would go down in history for doing so. As I watched him give his acceptance speech before the multitudes filling Hyde Park, tears sprang to my eyes and only one thought entered my head: “It should have been me.” I began my own campaign for U.S. president at the tender...
...people. Worst part about Harvard: The people. Don’t worry, you’re probably in the “best part about Harvard” category. Describe yourself in 3 words: Guy, a, three. In 15 minutes you are: In euphoria that Americans elected a black president. In 15 years you are: In euphoria that Americans elected a female AND gay president (it’s going to be a good 15 years. Get on board, California, lesbian is the new black...
...championships, 12-6. 1894: Rugby brutality continues as seven players were reported to be carried out in “dying conditions,” according to newspapers and had to be suspended for two years. Also, first Yale game with William H. Lewis, Harvard’s first black captain and first football scoreboard, invented by Bostonian Arthur Iwin. 1908: Rumor has it that Harvard coach Percy Haughton strangled a bulldog in locker room to motivate players. Harvard did win, 4-0. 1909: “Battle of the Giants” in which 9-0 Yale beats...