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...that the Harvard bloggers are told to cover. Theodore B. Bressman ’06, who now writes for Sports Illustrated on Campus and hopes to write for television, provides an egregious example of the phenomenon.Along with former Crimson editor Christopher Schonberger ’06, he wrote the popular blog CheddarTed.com. The blog is still up and running, though the frequency of posts is waning.The blog was something of a fun-house mirror, chronicling minutiae such as the writers’ love for R. Kelly, Dunkin’ Donuts’ iced coffee and staff, and their girlfriends. Each...
...Educational Testing Service (ETS) has scrapped plans to revise its popular examination for prospective graduate students, citing concerns about access to the test. The proposed revision of the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) was slated to take effect in October. It would have tacked 90 minutes on to the two-and-a-half hour test and eliminated some question formats, including analogies. It would also have made cheating more difficult, since the test would only be administered 35 days a year, with a completely new test developed each time. The test is currently administered more than 250 times a year...
...competition is the potential for a student to “brand an institution.” Logo designs must be submitted by April 15. Students will vote on the submitted logos through the SOCH Web site, and the winner will be decided based on both a popular vote and the consideration of the SOCH Advisory Board. The winning logo will be unveiled on May 2. —Staff writer Elaine Chen can be reached at chen23@fas.harvard.edu...
When Alabama churches started going up in flame in February 2006, nightmare visions of marauding Ku Klux Klansmen and Satanists, - the first attacking black churches, the second, white churches - sped through the popular imagination. Both groups have been active in Alabama history; and so the devout stood vigil through the night to guard their places of worship from white-robed or otherwise malevolently attired assailants. However, on Monday afternoon, when the perpetrators of the fires appeared in court for sentencing, they were dressed in orange jumpsuits and they claimed to have no racist or devilish designs on the good churchfolk...
...about] meeting real life.”A USER’S MANUAL“We had humble beginnings,” says Li. “We were looking for more people to play ‘Civilization IV,’” a popular computer game. “We were sure more people played on campus, but didn’t know how to find them.”“We realized just bringing three or four more people together made it more fun,” says Decker. The group, which...