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...Park Street T station. There were complaints from gay undergraduates who found menacing posters on their doors throughout the year, one of which reportedly said “Hitler was right: Gays should be exterminated.” And in February 1981, MIT fraternity Pi Lambda Phi organized a joke march through Harvard Square calling for the reinstatement of capital punishment for gay people. The march left a trail of severed lambs’ heads attached to leaflets with fake quotations, including one attributed to University President Derek C. Bok, which read, “Homosexuals at Harvard? It?...
...Jacob and Fremeaux were also expected to be presenting The Fountain, the third feature from Darren Aronofsky (Pi and Requiem for a Dream), starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz. The synopsis - "Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world" - makes The Fountain sound wildly ambitious, on the order of D.W. Griffith's three-hour, four-part, epoch-straddling 1916 film Intolerance. One would expect as much from Aronofsky, a young director with an original, powerful vision. But The Fountain dropped...
...novel, JPod, follows the lives of six workers at a Vancouver video game company. Like his 1995 book Microserfs, about a group of Microsoft employees, JPod is full of visual humor (the listed ingredients in Dorito chips) and pages of numbers (the first 100,000 digits of Pi). He spoke to TIME's Rebecca Myers about Google, his bridge between art and words, and why Douglas Coupland is such a jerk...
...start dating and everything as soon as you get here. 11) You have to do this thing called Primal Scream. It happens in my bedroom. 12) Want to get a big head start on everyone else? Let me show you Widener Library... 13) I can recite Pi. Backwards. 14) Oh my God, you’re right—“Love Story” is so romantic! 15) Seriously...
Meanwhile, at another artsy non-finals-club, the Advocate threw a pi-themed birthday party for Olga Kamensky ’08. Guests brought their favorite math nerds and jammed to hits by Aqua and Usher...