Word: umbrellaism
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Emerald walking-dress, rose-red shawl, high plumbed hat, gold-plated umbrella: Aisha I. Muharrar ’06 walked in to Adams Dining Hall last week in style. Actually, that’s a total lie. She wore blue-jeans and a T-shirt. But it’s all Victorian in her mind. “I live my life like I’m in a Jane Austen movie all the time,” Muharrar said casually as she mixed granola in with her yogurt. Asked if she had meant to say novel, she said...
...cabinet of the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), Harvard’s umbrella organization for public service, elected Alicia Rodriguez ’07 as its next president at a meeting last night in the PBHA Parlor Room. Rodriguez, who is currently PBHA secretary, ran on a platform of developing student leadership, increasing recruitment, improving access to Harvard resources, and tightening focus within PBHA’s 77 community service programs. “It’s important to make sure we don’t let in so many programs that the programs we do have cannot make...
...UCSD, which condemned the broadcast as “disrespectful, inappropriate, unnecessary, intentionally malicious, divisive and hurtful.” The council further chided the show for setting a bad example, citing a lack of prophylactics during coitus as evidence. York contests that his film falls under the umbrella of free speech. He believes his work satirizes a real sociological concern. “The more you raise student fees and cut financial aid, the more enticing these jobs in the adult industry become for students,” he says. Though his artistic endeavors are temporarily on hold, York...
...College has no specific plans for a response, and Kidd emphasized that building a permanent umbrella organization for student publications is not likely...
Many individual churches, synagogues and mosques have medical-mission and relief programs. Broader umbrella groups include Church World Service www.churchworldservice.org) the Catholic Medical Mission Board www.cmmb.org) the American Jewish World Service www.ajws.org and the Islamic Society of North America www.isna.net) --By Christine Gorman