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...Thursday morning not unlike any other, I was sitting in Sever Hall listening to a lecture on African-American humor. Suddenly, my classmates and I were jolted out of our intellectual reveries by the sudden utterance of the word “nigger.” This word came tripping not off of the tongue of our professor, but from a white classmate, in the midst of a comment on a joke that a slave (the “nigger” in question) told to his master. This came as such a shock to everyone not simply because...
It’s high time that we put that mentality behind us. While it makes sense to respect the tradition of Harvard’s planning and style and to draw on its icons for inspiration, a photocopy of Sever Hall in Allston would be senseless, styleless, and a poor policy for an Allston masterplan that should be committed to building an intellectual arsenal unmatched anywhere else...
...appeal to "anyone who has any influence on Hamas" is an admission that the U.S. has absolutely no influence on the Palestinian government. And the only players who may have any leverage in the situation will be those that actually rebuffed the Bush administration's demand that they sever all ties with the Palestinian government, particularly financial ties, after Hamas won democratic elections in January...
...campus opportunities for performance comedy.Nonetheless, the Demon ComedyFest will assemble those scattered members of the on-campus performance comedy community. Attendees of the festival will get to see an improvisational comedy group, a magician, and even a couple of rare stand-up comics.Last year, the event took place in Sever Hall and attracted a capacity crowd of 200. To accommodate the festival’s growing audience, it moves to Science Center C this year.Not coincidentally, the event is held during Prefrosh weekend. “Prefrosh seem to really like it because it’s cheap and it?...
...totalitarian state that governs Harvard’s social scene, a historical epoch has been reached: remarkably, the Fun Czar, Fun Republic, and Fun Proletariat are all in agreement. The decision of the Undergraduate Council (UC) to sever ties between itself and large-scale social programming is not only backed by Campus Life Fellow Justin H. Haan ’05, but is sure to be well-received by the majority of Harvard undergraduates. We support the creation of an independent undergraduate social programming board and applaud the UC for endorsing this initiative. At the same time, we hope that...