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...Hiphop Archive, and playing out her own East Coast/West Coast rivalry, Stanford professor Marcyliena Morgan may just be too legit to quit. After ditching Harvard for California when then-President Lawrence H. Summers denied her tenure, Professor Morgan is due back in Cambridge this January as a tenured professor. FM chatted with Morgan by phone about Ebonics, sexual innuendo, and the future of Hiphop. 1.Fifteen Minutes: You’ve been called the “hip-hop” professor. Harvard isn’t exactly the heart of hip-hop. Why study hip-hop here? Marcyliena Morgan: What...
Robert A. Mitchell is the owner of Harvard Book and Binding on the corner of JFK and Brattle streets. When FM visited one weekday afternoon, inquiring after Mitchell, the solemn man who came to the door introduced himself as Mitchell’s brother, and explained that Mitchell had passed away that day—then laughed. “Just kidding! I’m Bob.” The multi-talented Mitchell might show a customer how a water filter he has patented works by folding up an 18th century map, or perhaps have the customer...
While there might have been plenty of food to go around at the second annual Naked Ladies Brunch on Dec. 2, there was a disturbing lack of skin. Being fond of nudity, (see: cover of the Oct. 31 “Liberty Divided” issue), FM was a little perturbed to find the sartorial bonding focused more on the swapping of clothes than the stripping of them. And while there was a roomful of women, and clothes of all shapes and sizes piled into corners, there wasn’t a bare body in sight. Perhaps it should have...
...inducted into Phi Beta Kappa...and the rest of the student body felt wildly inadequate. But, perhaps this painful reminder that as smart as we may be, there is always someone who is smarter should not be taken too seriously. How brainy could these kids really be? FM puts five representatives from the 48 inductees to the test: 1. What’s the capital of Suriname? Taylor M. Owings ’08: “I mean I can Google it, but I’m going to go ahead and just be honest and say that...
...honor of John Harvard’s 400th birthday, filmmaker and Harvard Box Office employee Michael Van Devere wrote and directed a fictional film depicting the last night of the J. Harv’s life. FM sat down with Alex R. Breaux ’09, who played Harvard, to shoot the shit about the man himself. FM: When you received word that you had been selected to portray John Harvard, what was your initial reaction? AB: Initially, I wasn’t told it was going to be a biop about John Harvard, so I was just excited...