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...months ago, I decided that my new favorite blog was Stuff White People Like. If you don't keep up with all the snarky, zeitgeisty corners of the Internet, Stuff White People Like is a pseudo-anthropological list mocking the habits, tastes and whims of people of non-color. (Entry #1: Coffee. "White people all need Starbucks, Second Cup or Coffee Bean. They are also fond of saying "you do NOT want to see me before I get my morning coffee...
...When chatting about the blog recently, my close friend Rachel, who is melanin-challenged, asked, "What do they mean by 'white people?' I mean, you like some of that stuff, right?" As I waxed socio-economical on how the authors were trying to make a statement about classism and yuppies and liberal mind-traps (#62: Knowing what's best for poor people. "They feel guilty and sad that poor people shop at Wal-Mart instead of Whole Foods, that they vote Republican instead of Democratic... deep down, white people believe if given money and education that all poor people would...
Facebook, the Harvard-born online networking giant, unveiled a new chat feature Sunday that rivals Google’s popular Gmail chat program. Harvard students said they were ambivalent about the launch, which Facebook engineer Josh Wiseman called on the official Facebook blog “a new way to communicate with your friends in real-time.” A new chat bar appears at the bottom of the user’s browser when signed into Facebook, showing the online status of the user and other friends signed on the networking site. Availability is indicated by a green...
...mail account, blog, or hosting open meetings would all be a good start. The committee should also hold meetings with students who have the experience of having cases heard by the Ad Board. We may never know how the Ad Board decides its cases, but we should at least know how the reform committee conducts its review...
...typically “Harvard” way: by doing some research and hiring an administrator. When Harvard instituted the position of fun czar—officially called the Campus Life Fellow—as a coordinator for large-scale campus social events, the media and blog response was a flurry of derision. Were Harvard students so uptight that they needed to have fun despotically imposed upon them? Despite the apparent absurdity of having a fun czar, we approve of and acknowledge the necessity of such a position—not to impose fun upon us, but to create unique...