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...does provide an example of the growing body of ways in which we misrepresent our feelings through writing. How often does a response of “LOL” actually correspond to laughing out loud, or “OMG” to a legitimately shocking event? Taken together these phrases indicate a pattern of falsely self-representing oneself as being in a heightened emotional state. Perhaps overcompensation of emotion in these electronic messages stems from the lessening of actual human contact we experience over digital mediums. In any case, our communications, in almost every occasion, become more exclamatory...
...Tuesday, Apr. 20, Harvard Men Against Rape invited Michael Kimmel, author of “Guyland,” to explore the “Perilous World Where Boys Become Men.” Ironically, at an event co-sponsored by a final club, fraternities, and the football team, Kimmel opposed men building a group identity. We’ve heard it before: Men are privileged megalomaniacs; male groups are arrogant and purposeless...
...field portion of the Crimson’s squad also arrived ready to compete. Co-captain Jack Brady, in the first event of the championships, placed third in the men’s hammer throw with a distance of 60.48 meters. Brady’s throw, a personal best, rested just 0.28 meters behind the second-place effort, despite high wind at Princeton’s Weaver Stadium...
...inspiration to create such a tournament? Apparently Pfoho has been doing this kind of event for 7 years now! And Wu said she is hoping for a “quad throw-down” one day, especially since the event turned out to be such a success in her own house...
...Task Force helped to sponsor the event with the Cambridge Forum as part of an ongoing discussion on the challenges facing the Obama administration, Nye said...