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...House has also committed to host a slew of fundraisers for the project. In accordance with national Habitat guidelines, each project partner must donate a certain amount—Lowell will raise $20,000 while Harvard Habitat and Boston Habitat will donate $10,000 each. Members of Lowell have already started fundraising, drawing $3,000 in a date auction held last Saturday night...
Decked out with pins and stickers supporting a slew of candidates—badges of honor earned from hours of work on the campaign battlefield, even if spent supporting casualties of the primary season—students came to the conference from colleges across the state, including Boston College, MIT, Smith College, UMass-Amherst, Wellesley and Tufts...
...these female contestants discovered that midriffs were not the key to securing management positions and flirting would only get them through so many rounds. By endorsing sexist strategies themselves, these women opened the door to a slew of gender stereotypes they had not exactly anticipated. One by one, the female contestants were eliminated, with the classic stereotypical female weaknesses often cited as the explanation. Three of the contestants were criticized for being too emotional. Omarosa was just a bitch...
...then Harvard happened. During pre-frosh weekend, I took it all in: my as yet untarnished reverence for The University, the bounty of potential friends, the slew of academic and extracurricular options, I happened upon a South Asian Association barbecue, peopled with Indians (like me!) who were eager to welcome the class of ’05 into their fold. In an environment of unlimited choices, ethnic identity seemed to be yet another extracurricular activity I could choose to participate...
...audiences who “want films that reflect them, their lifestyle, their problems, their joys and their lives.” A few weeks ago, several Indian friends and I headed to MIT for a viewing of Where’s the Party, Yaar?, the latest in a slew of films attempting to do just that. They paint stereotypic portraits of the Indian-American family: the overbearing, chauvinistic father, the sari-clad mother who urges her children to eat more chapattis and focus on their studies, and the son who just wishes his parents would get with the program...