Word: doordrops
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...December of 2005. The campus media industry was at the height of a feeding frenzy, with ambitious young editors starting new publications left and right for reasons that ranged from dim careerism to boredom to thick, bloody hubris. The situation was demoralizing: most of what was falling into the doordrop was either shabby or sprawling, boring or depraved. One magazine had a photo spread featuring models but you could tell by their eyes that their bones were hollow.Freeze came out in time for Christmas and that was just about right. Writing on page 40, Sebastian, the editor-in-chief, proclaimed...
...Freeze never had the chance to vie for doorbox space with Harvard’s other publications. Suffering from insufficient funds, the organization was unable to doordrop its winter 2005 magazine, which was instead sold in the Harvard Coop at $2.95 a pop. And this was not only Freeze’s debut issue—it was the single issue the organization has been able to produce to date...
...issue of the Harvard Asia Pacific Review, to be published later this semester, will be “themed around governance,” according to Editor-in-Chief Kevin Koo ’07—expect a doordrop...
...Independent?” the Harvard Salient’s Gladden J. Pappin ’04 asked two years ago. His complaint may have been inspired by squeamishness, but at the heart of the matter lay a local case of media saturation. Harvard’s doordrop boxes were bursting, and since 2003, the door-dropping has only increased. Upstart glossies like Cinematic and the new Current challenge old guard standards like the Independent and the Advocate, and a half-dozen humor magazines try their hardest to make us laugh harder than the Lampoon...
Maya I. Soyre ‘07 woke up to her first day back at Harvard to find rotten news in her Wigglesworth doordrop. Soyre nearly spit out her poached egg when she read that her alma mater, Winsor Academy, had only been ranked second by the Wall Street Journal. Hoping that her Saint Anne’s alum roommate Isidore R. Hopkinson ’07 wouldn’t learn that her school had topped the list, Soyre hid her copy of the Journal behind her second-place squash trophies. Unfortunately Hopkinson had already heard the news...