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...current event-publicizing model in which student groups spam as many list-serves as possible with event blurbs isn’t working. It’s annoying, ineffective, and limited in potential impact. Instead, in order to streamline event-publicizing on campus, University administrators should commit more resources to this problem and work with the Undergraduate Council to offer a new, more user-friendly online events calendar...
Every group sending out so many emails lowers the probability that each email will be read and runs the risk of alienating potential event attendees. Additionally, this type of publicizing often depends on students planning their schedules weeks or days in advance. Many students take things day-by-day and will go to events whenever they have time; because list-serves aren’t personalized to ad hoc schedules, emails can be completely ineffective when students delete them days before the event happens. Often, students only find out about interesting events the morning after they happen...
Students do share some blame for the inundation of emails. From the start of freshman year, whether because of our broad curiosity or plain indecisiveness, many of us have signed up on every group and event list that could ever even remotely interest us. But we wouldn’t have to do this if we had a more intelligent, refined online events calendar. Right now, students don’t use the current online events calendar, HarvardEvents, because it’s just too overwhelming—it’s one big mass of uncategorized daily events...
Still, the Tea Party folk are fervent. The group's event coordinator, Judy Hoelscher, is relatively new at all this and has the enthusiasm of a convert. When she was living in California, she voted for Gray Davis, a Democrat, for governor. Now she paints signs and has a website, angryrightwinghousewife.com. Hoelscher, a mother of three, says, "Obama and the Democrats have not addressed the economy at all." She believes the stimulus bill was nothing but a "slush fund." But she is also offended by Republicans and says she will work for Republican challenger J.D. Hayworth against incumbent Senator John...
Though the screening was a taped performance rather than the planned live simulcast from Norfolk, Va. (an event postponed by bad weather), energy levels in the audience were high. One audience member waved a bumper sticker that read, "Glenn Beck. American Hero." (See pictures from a day in the life of Glenn Beck...