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...Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher, two NYU graduates "wasting their degrees" by making funny videos and posting them online. You'll learn that they're from Atlanta, that they majored in film and drama and that they have been working together since 2004, when Kocher helped McElhaney with his freshman-year film project. A Trailer for Every Academy Award-Winning Movie Ever Made is their latest, and most successful, endeavor. Britanick earned $1,000 for the skit, which Kocher says they spent mostly on food...
Although some schools are postponing new projects because of the faltering economy, others are forging ahead with plans to emulate freshman programs that have long existed at some of the nation's oldest colleges. And these schools are investing in neo--Harvard Yards at least in part to compete better for top students and bolster retention rates, both of which factor into the much studied college rankings by U.S. News & World Report. That raises a question: Freshman-year coddling may help allay the anxieties of helicopter parents, but is the college experience--the time when students are supposed to push...
...life is turning around and opening up.”Even after gay students began coming out about their sexuality on campus, their experience was often difficult.Kevin B. Jennings ’85 recalls the devastation of HIV in the gay community throughout the 1980s. His freshman-year roommate, first Harvard boyfriend, and a best friend have all died from AIDS.“I can never step foot on this campus without thinking about my friends from the Class of 1985 who are gone,” he said.The conference’s last panel offered statistics on Harvard?...
...keyboard), they are the spring from which countless fountains of Five-Percenter slang-throwing rappers and chess-playing b-boys flow, not to mention the beginning of my own interest in hip-hop.I spent my first semester at Harvard slightly unmoored, thanks to ill-matched roommates and general freshman-year over-stimulation. So, I opted to channel my energies into nonstop Moral Reasoning-related freakouts rather than, like, joining organizations and making friends or whatever. It wasn’t until sophomore fall when I received a Facebook message inviting me to comp The Darker Side, WHRB?...
Remember that mandatory freshman-year presentation on the importance of a good night’s sleep? If we’re going to sit through the College’s re-education campaign about the importance of rest, then at the very least we ought to receive the means to actually get some. It’s hard to sleep a full eight hours when you’re stacked firmly on top of someone else...