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...real world of college cheerleading; team members say that, in general, the competition is friendly. Now that Harvard’s cheerleading team’s presence is being felt, Capasso says she hopes to open new doors for an entire segment of the student-athlete population. FM hopes this means we’ll be seeing our very own president with pompoms at the next football game...
...feet long—at their homecoming game last October. And in 1972, a dedicated group of Harvard students set a record for the longest monopoly game, playing for 50 hours in a Currier House elevator. According to the maker of Monopoly, the current record is 1680 hours. FM thinks it’s only a matter of time before Harvard students organize the largest gathering of people dressed like Conrad’s rival, Heidi Montag, but Cronin isn’t sure that there will be enough interest. “I think people would rather dress like...
What costs the same as 110 nights at the Ritz, 640 Lacoste polos, or two matching Mini Coopers? A year at Harvard. Next year, it will be 3.5 percent more expensive. Here are some ways that FM thinks we will see a return on the increase. 1) Stockpiles of scabies cream at UHS. After this year’s little incident, they can’t risk another potential outbreak with the Class of 2012’s unclean members. 2) The MAC will close another six months for renovations. For what improvements? They’re not really sure...
...FM: What did University of Chicago Law School Dean Saul Levmore mean in a Chicago Maroon article about your departure when he said that “there are a couple of personal reasons” for your decision to leave? CRS: I have been at University of Chicago for over two decades. I love the place and I have no problems with my longtime home. When people leave one institution, often there is a sense of dissatisfaction with that institution and I don’t have that. In terms of a career, it can be good...
...FM: What are you working on right now? CRS: I am most excited about a book called “Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness,” which I co-authored with Richard Thaler. The basic idea of the book is that humans are amazing in many ways but cutting edge social science shows that we blunder and that our blunders make us poorer, less happy, and less healthy. The good news is that we are nudgeable through acts by private companies and governments. We can be nudged in directions that make us less poor, happier...