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After spending a lifetime being evaluated and measured up against their peers, too many Harvard students take a perverse delight in switching roles—being handed the keys to the door. Final club punch pageants, The Crimson executive “Turkey Shoot,” comp parties at a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine: all of these events are about who gets in and who gets left out. In the end, it hardly seems to matter what you’re joining to do in the first...
Waiting in the interminable noon Annenberg line, we are constantly accosted by upperclass students urging us to try out for another a cappella group or comp another student publication. In front of the Science Center, flyer-laden activists shove slips of yellow paper in our faces, exhorting us to join another cause. The unending deluge of paper wrangles my nerves. So does the exorbitant amounts of paper wasted in hand bills, and layered on bulletin boards. Stacks of flyers none of us will ever read inevitably accumulate. But we still keep taking them because, if we didn?...
...There aren’t other departments across the country, just those teaching in linguistics, history or comp lit departments. If the Celtic person leaves, there is no guarantee that [the department] will re-hire another Celticist,” he says...
...manage their finances better. The Family Time Flexibility Act would leave it up to employers whether to pay for overtime in wages (as many union workers can now demand) or in compensatory time. The effect of this change would be to reduce income, since most companies would opt for comp time. Democrats oppose the bill, which nonetheless sailed through a House committee. The other bill would let unionized companies reduce their pension obligations by billions of dollars, further imperiling a benefit that is already eroded and underfunded. New data show that blue-collar workers have shorter life spans than white...
Jacob A. Rubin ’03 is a Literature concentrator living in Winthrop House. The Expert advised him to take four years to complete his FM comp. It seems to have worked for both of them...