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Twenty-five students from the Institute of Politics and representatives from three other student groups visited Roxbury and Dorchester on Saturday to register voters in underrepresented neighborhoods. At their final campaign at Oktoberfest on Sunday, the IOP wrapped up a month-long voter registration drive with the Cambridge Election Committee. The IOP’s last efforts, assisted by the Philips Brooks House Association, the Black Men’s Forum, and Students Taking on Poverty, come before this week’s voter registration deadline in Massachusetts. The students registered hundreds of voters over the weekend...
Thankfully, Harvard’s Queen’s Head Pub is making small steps in the right direction, having hosted Beer School and Oktoberfest in the past two weeks. Still, there is much more work to be done—far from abandoning its focus on beer, the Pub needs to redouble its energies and rid itself of its last bad beers and “malternatives...
What Harvard lacked in giant, House-sponsored dance parties this weekend, it made up for in wurst. Attendees at Oktoberfest, held in the Cambridge Queen’s Head, sampled a selection of authentic German sausages, side dishes, and of course, Oktoberfest beer. Revelers, many of them filtering in from Comedy for a Cause in Sanders Theatre, enjoyed a pub decorated in blue and white Oktoberfest pennants. Female employees dressed in themed costume. Alice E. M. Underwood ’11, a pub employee, recommended Bauernwurst as the best sausage and expressed enthusiasm for the event. “We?...
...merry crowd would have been if a group of Burmese dissenters, or even a serious group of concerned Americans, had voiced its desire to march in the parade. After all, they wouldn’t be any fun. Who wants to deal with real issues during a parade? Oktoberfest is supposed to be about jollity and getting drunk. After all, if anyone really wants to protest, they can set up a soapbox in the square and hand out fliers—a far more effective and publicly acceptable way of voicing serious concerns about the world...
...some, October means the changing colors of falling leaves on the trees of the Yard. But for Harvardians without the willpower to do a problem set on a Sunday, October means something quite different: Oktoberfest! FM lists its fifteen favorite things about the undercelebrated holiday. 1. Convenience. Oktoberfest fun takes care of pre-gaming for the night. 2. The celebration in the Square concentrates tourists into one place, so they can trip over each other for a change. 3. One can jaywalk across JFK without getting hit by a Masshole driver. 4. Beer. 5. One can jaywalk across JFK while...