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...says. “That was a huge shock.” To keep them thinking, Mir and a coalition of other student groups have employed an unlikely weapon: comedy. After a rocky semester-long push to raise awareness and funds, a coalition of student groups will end their relief efforts this Saturday night with “Comedy for a Cause,” a two-hour stand-up show. Teaming up with the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) and the Undergraduate Council (UC), the Earthquake Relief Group, which Mir heads, hopes that the show will help them meet their...
Most recently, the commission partnered with Harvard aid organizations to put on Saturday’s Comedy for a Cause, a comedy show benefiting South Asian earthquake relief...
...This really shows how the HCC can be helpful in providing the publicity infrastructure and the manpower to help earthquake relief coalitions throw a show,” Conroy says. “That’s a real niche the HCC can provide: to produce and plan events...
Amid coffee and Milano cookies, Kennedy School Assistant Professor Asim I. Khwaja encouraged students to donate their time and energy as opposed to their money to relief efforts to help victims of the earthquake that struck Pakistan and India last October. Khwaja reminded students at the event—sponsored by the South Asian Association—that the effects of disasters like earthquakes last for a long period of time. But the message that echoed throughout the discussion was that there is not one way to help the earthquake victims, but an infinite number of ways...
...College, itself, will soon enter the late-night food business as well, if only on a limited basis.The new Lamont Café is projected to open—and stay open, along with the library—24 hours a day next year. However, this may only provide minimal relief to hungry students.While the Lamont Café will provide a place for students to buy food at all hours of the night, Director of Communications for the Harvard College Library Beth Brainard says the College does not envision the Café being the same as a fully-functional restaurant...