Word: refering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Amazingly, the average Harvard student--with a little training--can refer welfare mothers to various local health care insurance carriers, expounding on the relative benefits of Mass Health, MBC Healthnet, Boston Health Net and TAFCD (Transitional Aid to Families with Dependent Children, or what was once commonly known as welfare). I, on the other hand, can hardly identify my own health insurance carrier...
JAMES L. MARCIANO '88 LOVES TO TALK BUSINESS. But then, business has been very, very good to him. Marciano is the CEO of Up-Set, a New York Internet firm that runs Refer-it (www.refer-it.com), the self-proclaimed "premiere search engine for revenue-sharing programs." And that's only his cash-cow; Up-Set has also designed i-Site, bringing the blind community, and Marciano's baby, OurSquare (www.oursquare.com), an online community for Ivy League alums that boasts such famous members as Jordan's Queen Noor...
...even heard some dim wits on WEEI, Boston's wanna-be WFAN, refer to the Red Sox, with the fifth-highest payroll in baseball last year, in such terms...
...even heard some dim wits on WEEI, Boston's wanna-be WFAN, refer to the Red Sox, with the fifth-highest payroll in baseball last year, in such terms...
Public activism is only part of the story. The panoply of overused 90s buzz words--from "community action" to "political activism" to "service learning"--all refer to the same value. These words describe activities that reject the status quo (and the everlurking ambert). Many students here unconsciously harbor a rebellious nature, even while dining on fine china and staring into the grave eyes of John Adams, Class of 1754 or Charles Eliot, Class of 1853. In this every-other-week column, I will attempt to revive and unearth this modicum of resistance, buried within even the most apathetic Harvard student...