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...Five Harvard undergraduates moved bashfully from the dance floor toward Fat Catz’s stage. Their backs to the crowd, the students followed the instructions of the DJ and grooved to the hip-hop beat...
...November, the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC), a subsidiary body of the UC, cancelled its planned fall concert featuring hip-hop artist Wyclef Jean because of insufficient ticket sales, costing the UC between $25,000 and $30,000 in sunk costs. And the UC’s Springfest Afterparty last year cost $16,000 but drew fewer than 200 people...
...lucky meeting. Luny was a self-taught drum-machine prodigy; Tunes was a skilled keyboard player, working on hip-hop-influenced instrumentals in a small studio he’d set up in a closet at his family’s home. Soon the friends were talking about combining their skills and the far-off, thrilling prospect of stardom...
...then there are the people, more than 800,000 crisscrossing legally every day, some walking, more driving, not to mention the 4,600 or so who hop the fence and get caught a few minutes or hours later. The ones who make it are on their way to jobs as meat packers in Iowa and carpetmakers in Georgia and gardeners in Pennsylvania. They want to be in the U.S. so badly they will risk the scorpions and the rattlesnakes, the surveillance cameras and underground sensors; they will fold into hidden compartments behind the dashboard...
Spend a day aimlessly wandering in that large city across the river that you told all your neighbors back home was one reason why you came to Harvard in the first place. Scalp tickets outside of Fenway and seat-hop to the fourth row behind the visiting team’s dugout. Go visit the glass flowers that your mom always harasses you about seeing. Go be corny and touristy and take a Swan boat ride in the Public Gardens. If you took the Michael Bolton advice, this cannot be too corny of a suggestion...