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...When I chose to come to Harvard, I tried to convince myself that the Puritan façades would hardly affect my undergraduate experience and to focus on academics. But I couldn’t stop thinking about architecture. The visual nature of one’s surroundings exercises a great deal of influence upon one’s life, which is why someone who can’t swim will pay millions of dollars to see the ocean out the window every morning. If anything, architecture is a better reason to pick a school than its name, which...
...business of publishing photographs of nude undergraduates. Di Pasquale believes that Diamond will stand out by being “more Hollywood”—à la Maxim or Playboy. His goal of classiness, unfortunately, seems to have been lost in the way he chose to solicit models...
Perhaps Di Pasquale has overlooked the fact that the method and language used to advertise Diamond to potential readers might not be well received by the communities he chose to solicit for potential models. This difference was overlooked, just as the magazine’s mission of classiness seems to have been...
...portraits. The magnification of the dolls’ faces to ten times their original size, combined with a serious enhancement of color manipulated through the use of Photoshop, creates a larger-than-life appeal that resonates with the spirituality said to be embodied within the dolls. Ducharme says he chose to focus primarily on the katsinas’ masks, or faces, because the Hopi themselves concentrated their efforts largely on the details of the dolls’ heads. A doll can represent a katsina spirit simply through its facial features; at times an artist will choose to draw rather than...
Younger, a sophomore who chose English over molecular and cellular biology, cites the difficulty of scheduling “huge chunks of lab time” while “trying to have a life” outside academics...