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...better or for worse, then, the financial independence of college is very much a transition step for most students. We can feel grown-up comparing prices on laundry detergents, end up blowing the bank account anyway on an impulse buy at Urban Outfitters and yet never need worry about putting food on the table. But never fear, for while college itself may not teach money management, the prospect of paying off student loans post-graduation will keep even the biggest spender’s impulse in check. In the meantime, the latte’s on Crimson Cash, thanks...
Leaders of Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP) sent a letter yesterday condemning the clothing store Urban Outfitters for selling a T-shirt that they say discourages political participation among young people...
...their letter denouncing the offending shirt, which reads “Voting Is For Old People,” IOP Director Daniel R. Glickman and student advisory committee chair Ilan T. Graff ’05 urged Urban Outffiters CEO Richard A. Hayne to “take seriously your responsibility to strengthen rather than discourage young people’s civic resolve...
Designed by 26-year-old Yale alum John Foster-Keddie, the controversial T-shirt is a “vintage tee with a pinch of irony,” according to the Urban Outfitters website...
...longtime bullet-train commuters clamber drearily onto the unreliable T, while quaint Europeans enthused of the unicycle are frowned at by our city’s hard-headed pedestrians. And then there are those from even more exotic climes like that of, well, the rest of the urban United States, who discover that on the tortured “grid” of metropolitan Boston, taxicab rides are ever-unfolding, decidedly meta Borgesian enigmas. Cambridge is simply not the place for those who demand speedy or imaginative journeys...