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...trudging through the Yard, avoiding obnoxious tourists and endless sludge piles when suddenly it hits you: Spring Break is still 3 weeks away, your classes are nowhere as interesting as they seemed during Shopping Period, and you got stuck in yet another class with “section guy.” Well, don’t apply to take time off just yet. Cut out the Harvard Survival Guide Drinking Game, buy yourself a nice big hip flask, and start playing. 1.) Someone says “Foucault,” “Sartre?...
...plans to hold a panel discussion with key players involved in Sierra Leone’s independence and development. Harvard students are not the only ones benefitting from HCSLI, whose Web site references the greater possibility of cultural exchange. In the “About Us” section, HCSLI writes: “We also know that such interaction will alter the experiences of Harvard students in a way classrooms cannot. The win-win situation for both the students and the locals in Sierra Leone cannot be overstated.” Such a statement points out the fundamental truth...
...their bathtub faucet wouldn’t turn off; Adams House students sleep with earplugs because of noisy heating pipes; showers in Kirkland spew out blackish water; doorknobs come off in the hands of Eliot House residents; melting snow leaks into a fourth-story room of a five-story section of Lowell House (of course, the water first had to make it through the layer of asbestos in the ceiling!); and that smell in Adams dining hall only went away after the floorboards were ripped up and a massive cockroach infestation exterminated. Although these stories sound unique and extreme...
...opponents, but ultimately the comparison serves to undermine everyone’s struggle for greater rights and acceptance. The playing of the race card dilutes the next hand’s potency; racism becomes a nebulous, meaningless phrase.And it is this issue that Ford confronts in the aptly named section “Defining Discrimination.” When racism can be nearly anything, then what does not count as discrimination? For Ford, discrimination does not work both ways; he has no time for those complaining about “reverse racism.” Rather, he focuses...
...gimmick, and could stand up in a high-fidelity context. On “Heretic Pride,” the studio flourishes and Darnielle’s songwriting are better integrated than ever. In “San Bernadino,” for instance, an elegant string section provides the only instrumentation. It’s one of the album’s highlights, contrasting long, plaintive swells against the pizzicato current that gives the track its backbone. It’s not the first time Darnielle has attempted such a project in the studio...