Word: subways
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...dormlife until one has spent the night before two final exams chasing a four-foot long ball python with a syringe hanging out of its abdomen around a dorm room. Charlie was not amused. Neither was I. After 12 more shots, hundreds of dollars on vet bills and many subway trips to the vet hospital with a snake poking around my backpack, Charlie passed away. I breathed a guilty sigh of relief...
Despite the dialogue in Price’s photograph, it is Meghan M. Brown ’05 who shows perhaps the most potential of all the exhibited artists. Her subway scenes of a young family and a T-musician are well-composed shots of unexciting subjects. The quality of her self-portrait, however, suggests that she may have the vision to tap into her visual arrangement skills and arrive at terrific...
...identity. My first instinct, when someone calls me “sir,” is to snarl back gendered epithets and, to put it lightly, to fuck with people. Once, I got in a 20 minute-long shouting match with a wall-eyed young man on a Manhattan subway who told me not to hold hands with my girlfriend in public, a fight that silenced the train and ended with me shouting, “Suck my dick, bitch,” as the homophobe retreated...
Starecheski notes the importance of body language in constructing a gender image. “Think about what it’s like to ride the subway and to share public space with men,” she says. “Men generally take up as much space as their body size will allow. Women sit or stand in public as if they’re always willing to move at the slightest provocation. It’s like, ‘Oh, I’m sorry, I’ll get out of your way. This isn?...
...Office of Human Resources, the University has prioritized communication between itself and its lower-level employees since the PSLM sit-in. Each union now has a benefits brochure explicitly stating what their contracts offer, and the University proactively informs workers about classes they can take, reduced cost subway passes and retirement options. All relevant University documents are now being translated into Spanish, Portuguese, French and Mandarin Chinese. “We’re trying to make sure the employees are better able to know what resources Harvard has and how they can access them,” says Touborg...