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...comix industry awards perfectly reflect the nature of the business: the Eisners have a reputation as the "mainstream" awards and the Harveys as the "altys," while neither one particularly matters to anyone outside the biz. The Harveys are due to announce their nominees later this month. This past week the nominee list for the Eisners was announced. Inevitably everyone will wonder how certain things got left off and certain things got on. I can tell you because I was tapped as one of the judges for this year's Eisners. Here is the inside scoop, behind the green door...
...order to fully enter into Harvard mainstream a capella, the group had to go through an arduous ritual. First, the Lowkeys had to become an officially recognized student group. With Harvard’s official seal of approval in Fall 2000 the group could then operate a website on Harvard’s network, get a student mailbox, be listed among other official student groups, poster on campus, and most importantly, use Harvard space for rehearsal and performance...
...would be good if RUS were more mainstream and attracted women speakers who are mentors rather than being up in arms all the time,” says Whitney E. Harrington ’04, a sometime-member of the group. “I don’t go to RUS meetings because I have a problem with women victimizing themselves...
...practice is touted by advocates as a way to expedite the movement of important discoveries out of the academy and into mainstream usage—and to turn a profit for universities in the process. Tech transfer promises to bring in millions of dollars in royalties to the University and its professors—a total of nearly $20 million last year for Harvard alone...
Until 1980, universities had to cut through significant amounts of red tape before being allowed to patent and sell discoveries made with the aid of federal funds. Under that system, very few inventions in academia ever made it into the mainstream...