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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Widener is an impressive, very "Harvard" place but it isn't where you will spend a lot of your time as a freshman unless you have a compulsion to watch graduate students work their brains into naval jelly over their dissertations. A place where you might spend more time is Emerson Hall...
...considered what i wanted out of college, or where I wanted to be. If you do well at Scarsdale High School, you apply to Ivy League schools first, and you think about it later. Drawn by the name and the money, I only knew that there would be a lot of high-powered people awaiting me. And I had a lingering feeling, one that I tried to shake all that summer, that I would hate it. In some ways that may have been a self-fulfilling prophecy, but I was right...
...will notice within about three hours of your arrival in Cambridge, Harvard boasts a lot of ambitious people who like to write. Harvard also leaves most of its undergraduates with a lot of free time; as a result, there are quite a few undergraduate publications around. Reading them can be a full-time job--some of them are good and some, well, erratic. Actually, all of them can be pretty erratic, but if you join the staff of any of them you can have a good time, do some interesting writing, and meet some of the more colorful people...
...Harvard Independent--A weekly newspaper, founded in 1969 at the urging of University officials and alumni, most of whom believed The Crimson's politics were too far to the left. A lot of people still feel that way. At any rate, the Indy, as it's known, covers Harvard news in a weekly-review style. Its emphasis tends to be on social issues of Harvard life, and its political stance is pretty middle-of-the-road. There are usually two solid pieces in it per week, but unfortunately just about anyone who shows up at the Indy's office...
...Harvard Lampoon--In a weird building on Mt. Auburn St. lives the Lampoon, a bunch of guys who think they're really funny. Usually they aren't. A lot of people on campus hate the Lampoon. Their humor, if you can call it that, tends to range from preppie-obnoxious to racist, but they do have occasional bursts of brilliance. The problem is that they're generally convinced of their genius. Two years ago, after a series of racist items in the magazine (how does a cover showing the statue of John Harvard with a black child shining its shoes...