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Though Zisiadis still continues to do a lot of gigs when he is on campus, he too has moved away from house socials and towards Harvard’s periphery. “I think in general parties are forced to cater to the lowest common denominator—meaning that DJs are playing typical music that’s on anyone’s iPod. People get used to this, and expect this, and it creates a vicious cycle pretty fast,” he wrote. “I’ve definitely refused many gigs...
...Great DJing is like great sex. Think about it. The goal is for you and [the audience] to become so attuned; when you’re rockin’ out a party the energy is so contagious for everyone and it’s one of the best feelings in the world. If you get it right, you and the crowd share this wild symbiotic connection that is just euphoric.” So wrote Harvard heavyweight of the disc jockey (DJ) world George Zisiadis ’11, a.k.a. DJ Straus, via email from Grenada. Standing alone, this comment...
...Thorn, songs like “Party in the U.S.A.” are not intrinsically problematic; according to him, “the mainstream party culture at Harvard is focused around a really small canon of Top 40 music but I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing... I don’t feel disappointed not playing the music I’d rather listen to on my own. That’s not what those parties would ever be about...
With its new 32-second YouTube video, the Senior Gift Committee has begun the yearly effort to convince seniors to give to Harvard. But looking at the video, we think that Hamilton could have been better spent on increasing the teaser’s production values...
Last year, the Senior Gift Committee released a video parodying the “Don’t Vote” campaign. We didn’t think too much of that one either. But we look forward to this year's full-length video. If you think you can decode this cryptic teaser, feel free to leave a prediction about the next one in the comments...