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HERE'S A RIDDLE: what kind of Harvard theater group has no affiliation with the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club, writes its own scripts, and has neither auditions nor comp. Hint: on any one rehearsal night, it could have the following shopping list: poster paint (especially flesh-colored), blond doll hair, cheap scissors, Whoppers, tinsel and rhinestones...
There are several possible explanations for the desire to downplay our status as Harvard students. Some of us may feel that we are not worthy of the privilege bestowed upon us. It's like the Room 13 poster, trite but true: "Was I the mistake?" And some of us may feel a need to apologize for being at Harvard, an institution with an international reputation for elitism and egotism...
According to Hamoudi, 112 Adams House student signed up to renew the murals. Each student was assigned a space on the tunnel walls and provided with brushes and professional-quality acrylic paints. Although aspiring artists were given free reign over their spaces, a poster warned against painting the stock phrase "[Blank] was here...
...January 1994 at a national meeting of TV executives, where he operated three presentation rooms to make his pitch, generating contacts that led, he says, to Fox's winning over 50 more full-time and secondary affiliates. Now displayed at Padden's Washington office is a mock wanted poster featuring Padden's grinning face with nbc's logo in the lower left-hand corner. On this poster at least, NBC stands for Nasty Bitchy Crybabies...
...good Harvard student might suspect, bureaucracy is also a stumbling block. "It's frustrating to think that everything needs to be approved," says Bourdeaux. The university does not officially allow unchartered organizations to poster on campus, for example. Animae Society president Michael Kim '97 cites the difficulties involved in postering and recruiting for a new group. "On the whole the Dean of Students was very helpful and really glad to help out, except in publicity," he says. But unbeknownst to many, Kim explains, the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard will grant postering permission to certain unchartered groups. Others like Luke...