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...least. Witness Protection Program (WPP), an eight-man band of ’03 and ’04 graduates, used their unique angle as a sucker punch to “work against the institutional forces of the university,” according to vocalist Jacob Rubin. Performing hip-hop with live instruments, WPP members included MC Jacob Rubin ’03, MC Benny Peterson, drummer Peter Kennedy ’03, keyboardist Nicholas Britell ’04, bass David Sherman, Alan J. Wilkis ’04, DJ Cameron Kirby ’03 and percussionist...
...over one of the guys from Jurassic 5 gave me a pound and I have never felt cooler in my life,” said guitarist Alan J. Wilkis ’04. While the band’s lyrics touched on everything from sex to the cosmos, Rubin says that their music was partially a response to Harvard’s suppressive forces. “We were trying to terrorize our audience in a soothing, ultimately helpful manner,” said Rubin. “We felt like the spirit of the students as often beaten into...
...other members seem to have put music behind them for the present; Rubin is pursuing a graduate degree in writing, Britell is working in finance, Kirby is a paralegal, and White is in medical school...
Stefan A. Zebrowski-Rubin ’08 chimes in, “I don’t know what it will do but, I saw a banner add with a poem once and it made my day better...
...there may be a timely and effective solution to halt the killing sprees in Darfur: a mercenary army. Mercenary armies are often composed of former or current soldiers lured away by the high pay of the private sector. As New York Times reporter Elizabeth Rubin puts it, they are “willing to do what the United Nations cannot: take sides, take casualties, deploy overwhelming force and fire pre-emptively.” In Sudan, they would come in, protect the civilians from the Janjaweed and the Sudanese army, and remain until the international community asked them to leave...