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...amateur rappers filled Ticknor Lounge with insults and epithets on Saturday as they faced off in Outwit, a freestyle rap competition. The event pitted the rappers against one another in three-minute matchups during which the competitors rapped over a beat played by Darius P. Felton ’08, a.k.a. DJ Radius. The competition was sponsored by Tuesday Magazine and The Darker Side, a weekend music program on WHRB, Harvard’s student-run radio station. The rapping mostly consisted of personal insults. “This is ‘Bennie Els,’ I play...
...Novelist Gish Jen ’77 moderated the April 12 event together with Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies Werner Sollors. Essayist Andrew Lam, performance artist Lan Tran, and poet Truong Tran all presented readings to the audience gathered in Ticknor Lounge. Sollors provided opening remarks and introduced the first reading, Andrew Lam’s “Child of Two Worlds,” an angst-ridden autobiographical sketch of the author’s exile from Vietnam and his coming of age in America, from his essay collection...
...Take Back the Night,” an 11-day series of speakers and film screenings intended to raise campus awareness of sexual violence, launched in Ticknor Lounge yesterday, and the program’s leaders said they hope to shed light on the concerns of a broader range of students than in previous years. This year, “Take Back the Night” will place a special emphasis on international issues like sexual slavery and will stress that sexual assault concerns both men and women, said co-chairs Astha Thapa ’08 and Laura...
Before heading out to engage in pre-Housing Day rituals, 30 freshmen congregated in Ticknor Lounge early last night to participate in the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations’s fourth annual “Block Party,” a discussion of diversity in the context of blocking groups, the Houses and the Harvard campus. The event’s co-director, Teddy L. Styles ’07, also announced a new Foundation initiative to promote its mission of improving relations among racial and ethnic groups at Harvard. The Foundation Associates Program will consist...
...until the Bulgarians hit the dance floor. Kaloyan S. Slavov ’07 led a line of experienced Bulgarians and painfully clueless amateurs to the center of the room. In a form somewhat reminiscent of Riverdance, Slavov and his sweaty troupe broke it down Bulgarian style, snaking through Ticknor Lounge. “I didn’t know how to dance a single Bulgarian dance,” says Slavov of when he first arrived in Cambridge. He explains that he learned his sweet moves at Harvard, and then dropped it like it was hot back home...