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Next week’s Valentine??s Day issue will offer special “Heartgram” messages to allow students to express their affection for others. The submit button on the page reads, “I am going to get so lucky this...
Harvard’s half of the effort will take place from Feb. 9-11 in Adams House. The drive will be accompanied by several promotional events, including a Valentine??s Day raffle, an opportunity for donors and volunteers to vote for the design of a special T-shirt, and a chance for any five members of a student group who volunteer or donate together to win a miniature iPod and iTunes gift certificates...
...Christmas Eve.” Admittedly, I was mildly outraged—a classic case of unreasonable political correctness. The article’s anecdotes were pretty ridiculous. Included were instances where students were reprimanded for wishing friends a “Merry Christmas.” Valentine??s Day is being nixed from many school calendars as the religious overtones of “Saint Valentine?? are too strong. Even Halloween is being replaced with less controversial, contrived substitutes. No more secret love notes. No more costumes. No more Christmas. No more...
Sure enough, I had cause for concern. It’s all gone; Halloween, Valentine??s Day, Christmas parties. And, when I trotted up to my old alma mater to accost the unassuming secretaries, they confirmed the revised holiday schedule. Of course, they couldn’t really articulate the root of the recent changes—when I talked to the principal, she just gave me a roll of the eyes and said, “You know, some people are just crazy.” Cultural sensitivity at its best...
...someone who mischievously calls his friends at fancy restaurants just to disrupt their big dates, Fitzpatrick has a romantic side of his own. Last Valentine??s Day, he serenaded girlfriend Liza K. Barber ’05 with a rendition of “I’ll Be” and presented her with a three-foot, homemade, heart-shaped card...