Word: downrightness
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...that most of the country has not found out that the Faculty spent two hours bickering over whether Harvard ought to explicitly support free speech or not. If the entire charade seems silly enough to those who are familiar with the motion’s political implications, it seems downright ludicrous for those looking in from the outside. Complicating the matter further was a convoluted knot of parliamentary procedure that left professors at the meeting unsure of what motions they were voting for in the first place. The end result, a pointless miasma of motions and amendments, served nothing except...
...Downright Depressing Set of Rankings...
...uneven bricks and cobblestones weren’t treacherous enough, the wintry mix coating the campus is making getting to lecture (or worse—wobbling to final clubs in heels) downright perilous. But don’t add trendy tractional hiking boots to your non-denominational holiday gift list yet—FM went to UHS to see how much danger we’re really in. “In terms of slipping and falling on the ice or something, you’re probably going to be more concerned with the elderly, people who might break their...
...Informants - and the baggage that often comes with them - are not new. They have become downright pedestrian in drug cases. For many convicts, cooperating is the best - and sometimes only - way to reduce a prison sentence. But the rise of informants has led to accusations that the government is outsourcing detective work to thugs. "The government's use of criminal informants is largely secretive, unregulated and unaccountable," Alexandra Natapoff, a professor at Loyola Law School, told the House Judiciary Committee last July. "Informants breed fabrication...
...clumsily attempted to steal our flag was manhandled by a gang of Harvard cheerleaders. And while the Harvard halftime show involved beheading and dismembering a bulldog—perhaps not our best or most original idea, but an entertaining one nonetheless—Yale’s effort was downright quizzical. Amidst the nonsense, one thing was clear: Yale was portrayed as a lumbering and sluggish dragon that only felled menacing pterodactyl-like birds when they careened into it. Clearly, the Yale Band agrees that its school is stuck in the Stone Age. And then there was frigid New Haven...