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...Approximate number of Web site hits on thecrimson.com at the height of a plagiarism scandal surrounding student novelist Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 and her novel “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got A Life...

Author: By Crimson News Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Class of 2008 By The Numbers | 6/3/2008 | See Source »

...like it, though. Harvard students have campaigned for changes, whether increased career advice for non-investment bankers or increased social opportunities in more welcoming settings. We are self-critical. We know that we would do well to think less about ourselves. We took pause at the painful irony of Opal Mehta-gate—the frenzy surrounding a book about an organization kid who learns to lighten up which was exposed as plaigarized and reviled in the media as the prototypical example of glory-mongering. The recent hunger strike for living wages showed that we as a student body want...

Author: By Annie M. Lowrey | Title: Reforming the ‘Organization Kid’ | 6/5/2007 | See Source »

...just sort of smiled at her,” Opal recalled, “and thought, ‘Please go, please go, please go.’ I thought I was going to cry. I wanted her to grab me a pamphlet or something and leave...

Author: By Kathleen E. Hale | Title: Nurse Ratched Lives at UHS | 4/11/2007 | See Source »

...Director Dr. David Rosenthal was surprised to hear about Opal and Face, but said, “Any complaint is a significant complaint,” and told me to call the patient advocate. He then gently lectured me on the silliness of voicing such complaints in an article...

Author: By Kathleen E. Hale | Title: Nurse Ratched Lives at UHS | 4/11/2007 | See Source »

...done that—many times, actually—and like Opal and Face, my own experiences with UHS have continued to be moments from a Kids in the Hall “Bad Doctor” skit. My freshman year I woke up with a big enough tummy-ache to warrant my first visit to UHS. The nurse on duty was a Danny DeVito look-a-like, whose gruff voice and flip-pad made him look more like a cop than a caregiver. He grunted and cleared his throat to speak. I waited for my Miranda Rights...

Author: By Kathleen E. Hale | Title: Nurse Ratched Lives at UHS | 4/11/2007 | See Source »

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