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Yours truly here at 14P had a triple-hitter weekend: while a former (illustrious) chair was carried home, intoxicated and incapacitated, after a changing of the guard, newer contributors were busy greeting the old in the most scandalous of drunken attempts at lip-locking. Meanwhile, a certain business-oriented chap was frantically conveying his concerns over orientation to a future Cantabridgian, pita-wrapped Greek delicacy in hand all the while. For one special birthday bird, it was the thunder that was chocolate-flavored this year, not the cake, which was instead perfumed with the scent of intoxicating herbs...
...Last year was so unusual of course,” said Sociology Chair Robert J. Sampson. “Hopefully this year will be smoother...
...This isn’t just the QSA coming together, but all the communities we intersect with,” says QSA Co-Chair Marco Chan ’11. “And that could be anyone and everyone on campus who’s concerned with issues of marginalization...
...disappointment that has characterized students’ past reactions to the announcements of commencement and Class Day speakers—after all, there is no way to preemptively know the quality of the speech before the day of Commencement. The hype that preceded 2008 Class Day speaker Federal Reserve Chair Ben S. Bernanke ’75 starkly contrasted with students’ negative attitudes after his notorious ten-citation speech, during which many attendees left. On the other hand, last year’s Class Day speaker, Matt Lauer of The Today Show, was surprisingly enjoyable and enlightening...
...This is definitely a problem for Reid in Nevada," says Eric Herzik, chair of the political-science department at the University of Nevada, Reno. "Reid was hurt when the health-insurance bill did not pass. He made several ugly deals to get it done which, polls show, were overwhelmingly disliked by Nevada voters. He made the deals and then ultimately didn't get the prize, something of a two-for-one loss. Now he has a jobs bill that rejects Republican input at a time when voters in the middle are fed up with the partisan gridlock in D.C." Though...