Word: greedfully
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...Drew G. Faust’s lunch in Eliot dining hall to offer her a letter detailing their demands. And at FAS Dean Michael D. Smith’s town-hall meeting on the university’s budget, the group unfurled a banner that read, “Greed is the New Crimson.” Rather than encourage empathy for workers facing possible layoffs, these stunts drew criticism for their rudeness...
Last week, members of the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) invaded Eliot House during University President Drew Faust’s lunch, rudely interrupting her and the group of students she was speaking with to deliver a message: “Greed is the new Crimson.” After effectively mocking Faust’s own “green” initiative, SLAM unconditionally demanded that Faust meet with them within the next two weeks and rescind all layoffs of university employees since October 2008. This hyperbole, rudeness, and radicalism runs contrary to the spirit of academic debate...
Members have apparently been changing the backgrounds to display the group’s slogan, “Greed is the new Crimson,” prompting one student worker at Lamont to gripe in an email, “Note the absence of ‘constantly resetting desktop backgrounds’ in the above list [of my job responsibilities]. While I know you enjoy creating more work opportunities for others, please spare me the courtesy.” Ouch. Sorry, SLAM, we’re sure you meant well...
...desktop backgrounds working? We can’t judge yet whether or not SLAM’s tactics are actually helping workers, but at least students seem to be paying attention—kind of. Some were taken by the grammatical implications of the phrase “Greed is the new Crimson.” We were especially amused by this highly Harvardian response to a SLAM email...
...Perhaps they haven't responded because ‘greed’ unlike ‘crimson’ is not a color, and therefore saying ‘greed is the new crimson’ would be lexically similar to saying to ‘koala is the new circle’—a situation in which you are trying to include a member of a class of nouns (in my case animals) into a pre-existing class of nouns (such as shapes). Perhaps if you had refined your message into a nuanced argument comprised of phrases...