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...even more egregious example was a packet I received earlier this year about Harvard's library system. "Jump back! It's Harvard's library system!" this packet said in 847 glossy pages. I heard that prototype versions were even fancier: they projected a hologram of President Neil L. Rudenstine beating the president of Yale over the head with Moby Dick and declaring, "Kick the crap out of learning!" Did we really need this? Was there anyone at Harvard unaware that its libraries existed? Harvard's hope must have been that some kid in Stoughton would say, "Well, Hallelujah...
...Tidbits" and the library packet advertise services that are both obvious and inescapable for every Harvard student. You have to wonder what's next. A singing telegram about the Foreign Language Requirement? A brick through my window from the registrar's office? A basket of cookies with the message, "Laundry is fun in the Dunster basement?" Give money to the University now, and in ten years you'll come back for Harvard-Yale and see a plane pulling a banner flying overhead. "Harvard University free toilet paper: When you go, you'll know." Yep, you helped pay for that...
...Switched networking is advantageous in that it eliminates any risks from this kind of network monitoring," he said last February, after an incident of "packet-sniffing" forced many students to change their network passwords...
...City, Calif., simply adopts animals from the San Francisco Zoo in her relatives' names. More than 130 zoos nationwide have adopt-an-animal programs, with average yearly adoption fees of $48. The money goes toward the care of the zoo's animals, and "zoo parents" usually receive an adoption packet that includes a photograph of--and facts about--the adopted animal. The gift is tax deductible too. "I'm no dummy," Micke says with a laugh. "I don't throw away my money on something they're never going to wear or look...
...published the initiative's schedule of events in a purple-covered packet distributed to the Houses. The packet includes a comprehensive list of campus women's groups and a ballot inviting students to vote on what future course RUS should take in light of Radcliffe College's merger with Harvard...