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...other students did too,” Tainsh said. However, Loretta Kim ’99, a freshman proctor, said that while the sessions do repeat information that freshmen already know, they are designed to reinforce certain messages. “It is very different learning the information off-campus in any setting before you get here and then actually being on campus,” she said. “So if you do have an issue, you are not going out cold and speaking with a group you aren’t familiar with. You already know their...
Second, off-campus girls are way hotter. Michelle, Sonja, Ariel, Jenny, Amy, Rachael, Amanda, Jessica, and Tatyana, it was great to meet you. To each of you: you really are one-of-a-kind. Your gifts of not-fake e-mail addresses were far more generous than the stilted pleasantries we’re used to from Harvard girls, who avoid us just because we sit behind them and tug on their thong straps in lecture. Look, we’re just being playful, so why don’t you save that rape whistle for when you actually feel...
Which is completely ironic, since the Oxbridge tradition of higher education, upon which Harvard College was self-consciously based, was formed in the 12th and 13th centuries partly in opposition to the University of Paris. The last adhered to the lazy continental practice of off-campus housing, where students would live in the city and connect with their teachers only at lectures. Instead, Oxford and Cambridge sought to develop residential colleges—what the founders of Harvard would later call “a real college” instead of the NYU-like nonsense—to foster student...
...Sydney, Australia (his father was a successful lawyer) and a frighteningly rigorous education at nearby St. Ignatius' College, a Jesuit boarding school right out of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. A dilatory student at Sydney University, he drew cartoons for an off-campus magazine and drank with the Sydney Push, a group of young swells that included future writers Germaine Greer and Clive James. "I would sport a black beret," he recounts, "and wear a black duffel coat over a black turtleneck sweater, which would render me indistinguishable, I thought, from leading existentialists...
...proper. Such is the tardiness of official culture in understanding radical popular art. (The same thing happened this year with Borat. Sacha Baron Cohen, mocking the Festival's fabled history of topless starlets, paraded down the Croisette in a chartreuse G-string, but the film had its one showing off-campus.) It takes a while for the art burghers to catch up with important bumps in the comedy curve. Eight years after MP&HG, the Pythons snagged the Grand Jury Prize for the, I think we can agree, much less adventurous The Meaning of Life. (Give the French another...