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...help reduce the casualties, the COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS is distributing an unusual handbook called How to Survive and Still Get the Story. Says Anne Nelson, executive director of the committee: "This conflict is different. Instead of two sides, there are many sides, and often the troops are drunken paramilitaries. They shoot on sight, and they carry grudges against reporters." Among the tips in the handbook: Wear body armor. Never wear anything that looks military-issue (so much for Dan Rather's safari shirts). Never rush up to people with guns. Ask before taking pictures or notes. Carry a supply...
...issue of "expressed consent" is particularly important in light of the all too common situation, at Harvard as elsewhere, when a student is taken advantage of while in a drunken stupor, unable to say yes or no. That is rape, and that is what policies like this aim to prevent...
However, while we paddle in our youthful complacency, the enemies of sanity are arming themselves. Their work is being conducted with utter secrecy, yet excessive drunken reflection has given Gubba the insight. Language, comrades, is being appropriated, and is about to pierce our studied equilibrium. The pincer movement runs as follows. On one side lies the debasing jargon of cinema advertising, which compels innocents to speak in triplets, with a amputated vocabulary. Soon the apocalypse will be upon us, and it will happen before morning class. You go to breakfast. Eggs and bacon await the edibility test...
...served fries, raspberry lime rickeys and cheesesteak sandwiches to generations of Adams House residents, Crimson and Lampoon writers and Cantabrigians. During the week, it was the study break hangout of choice for many a scholar pulling an all-nighter. On weekends, it provided refreshment and jukebox selections to the drunken post-party, pre-hook up crowd...
These actions range from the spirited, reciprocal chidings of the Harvard and Yale glee clubs to the myriads of pre-game, drunken taunts between students to the ubiquitous presence of alumni at The Game. But all these reveal the same secret about us: no matter how much we pride ourselves on individualism, on the thorough atomization of our schools, at least once a year, we give in to a natural affinity for massive, directed action which offers no further risk of guilt...