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...worst from their participants. Bruises, black eyes as well as the proverbial blood, sweat and tears: all serve as testimonies to the raw passion that fuels many IM participants, those desperately grappling for that 100 points that will edge out an opposing dorm and clench the Yard Bucket or Straus Cup. This fearless dedication to the game is a major motivating force for Laurence Tai ’06. However, his sport of choice is not played on a court or a field. Rather, Tai’s is consumed with his position of “head IM rep?...
Just call him Straus. A Boston area native, Straus has manned the Garage Starbucks for nearly the last three years, serving up delicious Frappucinos, lattes and other tempting concoctions to overworked and caffeine-craving Harvard students. In his time in the garage, he has served the likes of such celebrities as Ben Affleck, Natalie Portman ’03 and “the mom from ‘Family Ties...
They’re serious about the effort, tongue-in-cheek name or not. The ensemble has already performed with the community service program MIHNUET, in a coffee house on Newbury Street, in Weld Hall on Freshmen Parents’ Weekend, a few times in the Straus Common Room and, yes, even on the T. They rehearse good, ol’ a cappella favorites three times a week and have additional “sectionals” for each voice part...
...established a cappella scene.” As group member Gavitt A. Woodard ’06 says, this made them seem like a “bunch of incompetents clapping in time.” But one needs only to walk down the stairs to an otherwise unassuming Straus C basement. There’s a piano, sheet music, a pitch-pipe and eight dedicated and talented singers. While the Fallbacks are all business in rehearsal, though, their interactions reveal a close-knit group. Fallback Maria A. May ’06 cites the group?...
...says, “but just the singing and fun.” Unfortunately, says Mehta, “The Fallbacks as a group are finished after our spring concert.” The last show is tentatively slated for just before spring break in the Straus Common Room. The group’s meteoric rise and fall may be finished with this farewell performance, but “these friendships will definitely last,” Gavitt says. “We will always just get together and sing...