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Acting on a whim, Ingber responded to an open casting call publicized in the Boston Globe last fall. Soon, he had landed a ticket for an eight-day spring vacation to a beachfront Mexican villa along with fifteen other students. And in exchange for sunshine—an alluring option for any Massachusetts resident—Ingber agreed to have his life filmed 24 hours a day for the duration of the trip. The creators of MTV’s The Real World and Road Rule auditioned 10,000 students from around the country, whittling 500 hours of film footage...
SOUTHEAST ASIAN NIGHT. Hosted by The Harvard Vietnamese Association, Philipine Forum, Thai Society, Indonesian Association, and The Singaporean and Malaysian Student Association, SEA night promises a fifteen-course meal representing all nationalities involved and a slew of performaces including a Dragon Dance, Filipino Tinikling, and “Romantic Serenades.” Special to this year’s event is an exhibition of works by photographer Jacques de Roquancourt depicting the landscapes and people of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Friday, April 25, exhibition at 7:30, dinner and performances beginning at 8:30. $8. Exhibition in Leverett House...
...head to the urinals, where I catch a glimpse of a naked man scrubbing himself down in the showers. One of the fifteen stalls is occupied, so I go into an adjacent stall. The guy next to me shuffles uncomfortably. Waiting for a good one-alligator two-alligator, I flush the toilet and slip back to the weight room...
During his fifteen-year business career, Gioia wrote on his own time. And in 1992, he left the corporate world to write full time. He numbers among his many literary accomplishments three books of poetry—one of them an American Book Award winner—and the book of literary criticism Can Poetry Matter? named for his Atlantic Monthly essay which stimulated much discussion on the role of poetry in the modern world. Gioia also leads several poetry conferences and is a commentator for BBC Radio...
...continued writing throughout his fifteen years in the business world, and in fact says he enjoyed the liberation that his corporate career gave him as a writer...