Word: kendo
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...those mysterious poster-trolls who traverse the Yard at dawn to wallpaper it with your fluorescent dreams--tearing down competing posters in the process, of course, you inconsiderate fiends--you know that campus posters succeed best when they prey on our fantasies. No one wants to read about the Kendo Club. But if your poster says, "FREE HOT PHONE SEX...come to the Kendo Club," someone will read it. This principle never fails...
...itself--no irritating cover letters, no nerve-wracking interviews, just drop the thing in the mail and be done with it--we're good enough, aren't we? And here, suddenly, on the bulletin board in Eliot House, someone seems willing to fulfill that fantasy--just like the Kendo Club was willing to offer us free hot phone sex! Ingenious indeed. We read...
Alas--or, might we say, "Jamnation!"--the Resume Contest offers about as much wish-fulfillment as the Kendo Club offers lewd entertainment. The poster directs interested students to a Web site, where the whole thing turns out to be a disappointingly harmless psychological test. Yet there remains something eerie about it, perhaps even more so after it becomes clear that the whole thing comes no closer to fulfilling our fantasies than the promises of free hot phone sex. Psychological researchers presumably designed this poster in order to capture our attention, and the method they devised...
...Dozens and dozens of clubs, societies, associations, and the like answer every hankering. Want to be a street performer? Harvard Juggling Club. Looking to kick some ass? Harvard Kendo Club. Bothered by moochers? The Harvard Objectionist Club. Can't find what you want? Start it yourself. It seems like there are enough groups for each and every Harvardian to be a leader in something...
Dozens and dozens of clubs, societies, associations, and the like answer every hankering. Want to be a street performer? Harvard Juggling Club. Looking to kick some ass? Harvard Kendo Club. Bothered by moochers? The Harvard Objectionist Club. Can't find what you want? Start it yourself. It seems like there are enough groups for each and every Harvardian to be a leader in something...