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...Conform and be dull" warns the poster in the office of Terry Deal, associate professor of Education. The maxim might provoke sarcastic giggles in the halls of Langdell or Baker, where conformity is a revered tradition, but at the Graduate School of Education, the poster seems to reflect the general sentiment of students, faculty, and administrators. From its low-key plans to shift its emphasis to the individual school and school leadership, to the clubby amblance of happy hours at its student cafe, the Ed School belies the image of the anxiety-ridden Harvard graduate school...
...then I stumbled upon the epic to end all epics, the terror to transcend all terrors--Happy Birthday to Me! was its name. "Find out the disgusting ways six snobbish high school classmates die." I studied the poster. A screaming student is pinned into the upper left-hand corner by a dominant shish-ke-bab. The top line of the poster reads. "Find out why Richard never ate shish-ke-bab again!" I don't care if this is parody. This is beyond human. I cringed picturing the meat popping out the back of his neck. But the worse...
...president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Conservative Club (HRCC) in two separate letters issued to Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, and the Harvard Radcliffe Gay Students Association (GSA), refused to apologize for an April Fools Day poster distributed by the HRCC and called for a "reprimand or formal censure" of GSA members...
...other groups reacted angrily to the poster, which listed as its sponsors "U.G.L.Y. (United Gays and Lesbians for Yuks), the Harvard Football Team Lesbians, and the Society for the Riddance of Fat. Hideous, and Shrill-Voiced Feminists...
...letter addressed to the GSA. Hilary A. Kinal, president of the HROC, called the GSA's reaction to the poster "over-sensitive, anti-social, and paranoid" and suggested that members "move to Communist Cuba, where homosexuals are put in jail, so that you could have a real enemy to fight...