Word: louder
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...media: Harvard graduates are overrepresented in the industry, perhaps because “Harvard far surpasses any other university when it comes to cultivating journalistic talent.” On the internet you don’t even need journalistic talent to be overrepresented, you just need to be louder than everyone else—perhaps we’re good at that, too.What’s to be done? Moderation, it seems to me, is key. In the case of the Wikipedia article, a few members of the Harvard community, coupled with a dedicated core of unaffiliated Wikipedians...
...need to schlep your homework-ridden self down Mass Ave., freeze in line for half an hour, pay $20 dollars, and then press yourself up against the drunk, smelly, orange-bearded guy bouncing around next to you who isn’t afraid to bellow lyrics out louder than the guy on stage. Some argue that true innovation is born in concert. Maybe that’s true, but it’s an innovation I find myself more and more willing to sacrifice. Maybe it’s the schoolwork, or maybe it’s because, under...
...that as she was walking on Quincy Street past Lamont Library at around 6 p.m. last Monday, she was speaking with her father on her cell phone when she heard screaming from a group of women across the street. “As I got towards them, it got louder and louder, and I could hear the words—they were screaming ‘filthy Jew-hater,’” she said. “I kept walking, and this one woman kept repeating the words over and over again. I turned around, and this...
...support, because his party’s majority in Congress was so slim that cooperation was necessary to get anything done. But Adam Nagourney, chief political correspondent for The New York Times, attributed the polarization to the increased availability of information, which forces politicians to get “louder and more coarse” to win attention. He also suggested that journalists’ “bias toward conflict,” rewards politicians who breed contention, rather than those who cooperate. Joshua C. Sharp ’08, who attended the panel, said he was struck...
...chatter seems to get louder every few years, when Harvard has enough momentum to make it a favorite to finish in the upper division—a distinction it has earned this season by placing second in the preseason Ivy League media poll...