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Along with the click of four-color pens and the occasional bleep of the obstreperous cell phone, the newest sound to be heard in Harvard's lecture halls is the click-clack of knitting needles. While it feels a little absurd to place this activity--formerly associated with hearthside grandmothers--alongside the yo-yo and the hula hoop in the ranks of the truly faddish, it's hard not to notice the conspicuous rise of "chicks who knit...
...toil on a pair of socks when one could support the local sweatshop by picking up a pair at Filene's Basement? Like foxhunts, senior theses and binge drinking, the point is the process, not the end result. "Nothing says I love you like a pair of well-knit socks," claims Lowell House sophomore Michael C. Large...
Large is not alone in his appreciation for knitted items and the message they send. At Woolcott & Company, a knitting supply center, most purchases made by college-aged women and men are those shopping for a significant other. But you don't need a girlfriend or boyfriend to have an excuse to knit. Roommates and family members are also frequent recipients of those hats being knit in the back row of core history classes. Anna C. Lewis '99 knits for her family and roommates...
...Advice for Cornell" (Editorial, Oct. 28), The Crimson Staff, reflecting on the state of Harvard's own house system, states that "Randomization...has eroded this individual character [of each of the Houses]." You advise the Cornell administration not to "expect the close-knit comunities of earlier this century to develop...
More broadly, the fires may signal a last wheeze of radicalism within environmentalism. When radicals lose arguments, they burn things, thereby rendering themselves unable to effect real change. Earth Liberation Fronters forsook the demands of democracy (reason, persuasion) when they formed the loose-knit movement in 1992. Some say they were angry that their mother group, Earth First!, wouldn't promote sabotage. Others theorize that Earth Firsters orchestrated the split to deflect blame for "monkey wrenching," as these tactics are called, from the main organization. Whatever the case, Fedor says the ELFs are experienced monkey wrenchers. Last year they allegedly...