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...underage students’ booze with money funneled to its bank account by the College. UC leaders have seized the opportunity to prove their worth as mature, tactful participants in Harvard’s administrative structures, and have acquitted themselves flawlessly—it is doubtless only a matter of time before the College accedes to their eloquently, insistently stated demands.Last week, the College’s positively Jacobin interim dean, David Pilbeam, let the axe fall on the UC’s weekly party grants, the nascent micro-finance of Harvard’s social life. Party grants have...
...poetry had serious literary merit.“Phew,” I remember thinking. That is, until I scrolled down to find out that what I played could be deemed indecent under another standard, since the language could be found to be profane. Was it profane speech?What mattered more: The language, or the “prurient interest”? The question of what is obscene or indecent is not one that is clearly defined on the FCC’s Web site or uniformly enforced in practice. The matter doesn’t fall easily along political...
...Change happens, and no matter what, Allston and Brighton are not going to retain the same composition of residents or community feel after Harvard arrives en masse. There are many types of change, however, and Harvard can either act apathetically toward the current community, or it can be receptive to residents’ needs and desires...
...legitimate political activities.”It is a particularly powerful interest group, however, and the authors are convinced that it has frequently used its considerable power to bring about results that are, unintentionally, harmful to America’s national interest. As they observe with an almost humorously matter-of-fact tone, “no two countries will always have the same interests. It is just not the way international politics works.” In light of this truism, any lobby that pressures America to act in another country’s interests will by nature...
...gain a foothold for HCSUCS in the world of the arts on campus, as well as the world at large.GESTATIONThe gestation of the group began in 2006 at the annual Demon Comedy Festival, when Greenbaum and Ingber recognized a void in the Darwinian social order of campus organizations.Within a matter of months, the group was functional, producing seven shows and participating in five more.“They were unequivocally all successful,” says Greenbaum. “We saw there was an implicit desire for comedy on campus. People really wanted to see live comedy...