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Babson College in Wellesley shut down its campus Saturday evening and will remain closed until Wednesday at 5:00 a.m., thanks to an outbreak of the norovirus. About 100 students and staff have been affected by this virus, which Harvard University Health Services Director David S. Rosenthal '59 says is usually spread through hand-to-mouth contact. Rosenthal notes, "People who live in dorms and eat in the same dining rooms are prone to getting this type of thing...
Harvard students hold many social events on campus, and there is a lot of competition between us to organize fun and well-attended parties. We try to make the flashiest poster and the catchiest name. Every Monday and Thursday, we compete with other student-group representatives to promote our events, hoping to make our advertisement the most iconic image on campus for the week. However, it seems that, despite all the energy spent in event publicity, we put too little thought into the kinds of images and words that we use and how they affect the entire Harvard culture...
...Lucky” poster is merely a symptom of an endemic problem. Other publicity materials recently seen around campus include boasts about “dead hookers” as a sign of a House’s appeal, not-so-subtle references to oral sex as a form of humiliation, and casual use of oft-derogatory terms like “whore” and “pussy.” It has become normal practice for student organizations and House Committees to use images and language that objectify women as sexual objects in order to promote their...
...While the Radcliffe Union of Students is a sex-positive organization partially devoted to disseminating information about female sexuality, we find it troubling that the campus climate of late seems to include normalization of female objectification. Because objectification of potential sex partners (often women) is often a prerequisite for sexual violence, imagery and phrasing that objectify women contribute to a culture in which rape and other forms of sexual assault are accepted. In addition, people who have already experienced sexual violence may be triggered or particularly disturbed by thoughtless, insensitive publicity materials...
...let’s be real. How many people on campus are actually going to use this...