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Instead of meeting the challenge of crew, my classmates busily build their resumes. They live for their dear student publications, involve themselves in the pretense of Harvard student government, organize themselves in self-billed nerd organizations, pass countless hours gorging their minds in Cabot Library and participate in other nice and pleasant self-improvement activities...
...schools in Baltimore, Detroit and New Haven, Conn. Encouraged by the program's success (at week's end 480 of the school's 800 students were wearing the new outfits), members of the advisory council may make uniforms mandatory in September. "Some of the girls say I'm a nerd," said smiling fifth-grader LaDonna Wright, proudly wearing her jumper and blouse, "but I say, 'I'm a radical dudette...
Strasser the infrastructure nerd (his Texas Tech degree is in architecture and engineering) finds buildings' guts -- beams, electrical outlets, air conditioning ductwork -- compelling pieces of the interior design puzzle. "I want my interiors to be a little raw, stark, to the point," he says. "Architecture is good -- you don't need to cover it up on the inside. But it's hard to get clients to go raw." The severe Texas recession of the 1980s was his big break: with corporate budgets tight and deluxe froufrous out of the question, it became easier to convince businesses of the merits...
Leonid Fridman '85, a fourth-year graduate student, is a founding member of the Harvard Society of Nerd and Greeks (SONG...
Your article, "Life as a Jock Nerd," (Dec. 16) was somewhat amusing and possibly good publicity for the Society of Nerds and Geeks (SONG). However, it misrepresented me as having a fixed "agenda" of sexuality for the talk and inaccurately portrayed the lecture by implying that sexuality was the only subject discussed...