Word: crew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Glassman '02), who is written as suddenly developing feelings near the end of the play, comes across as static as Mike is irritatng. In general, Glassman seems to have a poor grasp of his character. Dick seems more like a modern Middlebury student wearing tie-die over his J. Crew than the hippie he was written as. The women--Ruth (Shapiro) and Cathy (Shani)--are mopey and whiney respectively. In fact, the most tolerable character is Norman (Tom Miller '03), the math graduate student without social skills...
...Undergraduate Council vice president and presidential candidates seemed to have official platforms that were more than a little influenced by their personalities. Could it be a coincidence that vice presidential candidate Benjamin M. Wikler '03, a member of the Harvard crew team, announced his intention to end Harvard's "sink or swim" atmosphere? The audience could hear the emotion in his voice as he promised to make Harvard into "a sea with a coast guard." Clearly, Wikler wanted us to draw the conclusion that only he, a Crew team member, could fill the position of a coast guard...
Unfortunately, he failed to realize that another vice presidential candidate, Katherine E. Tenney '01, participated in Harvard crew for two years and no doubt could stand as an equally competent coastguard. His entire platform thus undermined, Wikler's parting cry of "Don't miss the boat!" ironically applied more to him than to potential voters...
...There is a lot of new blood," she said. "Jason Brinton will definitely be a good leader. He has great potential. I hope the new crew continues the outreach policy...
...reasoning for the all-male crew may lie behind Spanish tradition and cultural constructs. "It is true that there has never been a female worker here--except for maybe a woman who washed the dishes and helped to cook in the kitchen. It is because when Josephina [Cafe Pamplona's owner] came to America in 1947 from Pamplona, Spain, there were no female waitresses in all of Pamplona. So it is strictly a cultural thing. Cafe Pamplona is somewhat of a theme restaurant, and Josephina wants to make it as authentic as possible...