Word: pretender
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...pretend that every contact with Harvard’s mental health resources is perfect, but groundlessly disparaging the resources obscures some important facts: about 40 percent of current undergraduates have used a mental health resource while at Harvard; nearly 1000 students went to Mental Health Services at University Health Services (UHS) in the past year alone; and in a survey of over 900 random students, the average satisfaction rating of experience with mental health resources was significantly positive...
...everyone has favorite publications that they don’t admit reading, guilty pleasures ranging from Playboy to “Ice by Ice: The Vanilla Ice Story in His Own Words.”The flip side of this secret indulgence is an intellectual hypocrisy, a tendency to pretend to have read books we’ve never even opened. In any course section there are one or two people that will blithely elaborate their views, completely undeterred by the fact that they haven’t done the reading and have absolutely nothing of interest...
...movies, it's far more lenient when it comes to violence. In many countries, Saw was forbidden to those under 18. In the U.S., your 17-year-old could go and chaperone his younger siblings. The argument may be that sexuality is real and disturbs kids more than pretend maiming. But these ratings teach that sex is forbidden and killing is cool. They also tell the world that America is a place where violence rules...
...Harvard, we are so immersed in the immense modern world that we seldom get the opportunity to truly pretend we’re living in the 1940s, chatting about the Lend-Lease Act, before all this “green campus” propaganda kicked into gear. Perhaps it’s time Harvard started relentlessly exploiting its long, gilded past...
...Health and Wellness saying that medical conditions necessitate you receive one t-shirt for each of your 12 personalities. Threaten to sue if the insensitive bastards say no. 10) Pull the fire alarm in Annenberg—jack some shirts during the confusion. Multiple alarms may be necessary. 11) Pretend like you know the person handing out the t-shirts and make them feel really awkward for not remembering your name. They’ll probably feel too guilty to not give you a shirt. 12) Freshwomen: Chat up the guys—it’s okay to accept...