Frances S. Jin ’10 speaks up for former nerds everywhere By FRANCES JIN You know what, Liz Lemon? “30 Rock” may have three-peated its “Best Comedy” routine, but you can suck it. We get it—you’re a nerd, but people still love you. You’re “unattractive” but you’re actually still pretty. You have no social grace but you still manage to have friends. Pretty much your life is perfect. I don’t know about the rest of you, but Tina Fey playing America’s unsociable, flatulent, yet lovable, nerd is beginning to piss me off.
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Welcome to the Dungeon
While reality reigns all too often at Harvard, the underground world of Dungeons & Dragons takes on the territory of the imagination.
By ELYSSA A. L. SPITZER
Thursday, November 05, 2009 1:42 PM
Dungeons & Dragons. The name invokes basements and chains, medieval turrets, and mythical creatures. It sounds like the type of thing social misfits with headgear and B.O. would play in their mothers’ basements. It is the name of “the game.”
15 Questions with Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
By BETH E BRAITERMAN
Wednesday, November 04, 2009 12:32 AM
The phrase “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” is often used to justify weekend Facebook photos, but many do not know that these words originated in an article about Puritan funeral services by a University of New Hampshire grad student who is now an accomplished Harvard professor. Indeed, Pulitzer Prize-winning Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the History Department’s 300th Anniversary University Professor and the current president of the American Historical Association, recently received the John F. Kennedy Medal of the Massachusetts Historical Society, becoming the first woman to do so. FM got the chance to speak with her about her latest award, her career as an historian, and her love of the seemingly mundane.
Birthday Blues
Old life sucks, but you don’t have to. Birthdays might be lame, but they’re still worth celebrating.
By Nelson T. Greaves
Wednesday, November 04, 2009 12:32 AM
Don’t worry about it. You know what? Not even mad. It’s water under the bridge—less than that—poop shards under the water. I haven’t even begun to forget to remember it. That’s how chill it is that Monday was my birthday and you completely missed it.
FM Cribs Presents: N. Gregory Mankiw
By CATHERINE J. ZIELINSKI
Tuesday, November 03, 2009 11:11 PM
In the midst of one of our greatest recessions, economists are hotter than your last late afternoon romp in Widener stacks. This week, FM decided to journey over to one of the hottest (and economically sound) real estate investments around—the home of Professor N. Greogry Mankiw, one of Harvard’s favorite economists. What better home to investigate than his?
Brick Center Hall Colonial, built in 1932. Three stories. 6 bedrooms, 5.5 bathrooms.
Location: Wellesley, MA.
Size: Approximately 6,500 square feet.
Price: Undisclosed.
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There are many buzzwords used to describe the fashion high life, but only one to describe the freshman costume contest this past Friday in Annenberg: Fab-BOO-lous.
You may have heard of Mike A. Einziger; he’s best known as the guitarist of the band Incubus, but he’s also a student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and his most recent project combines these two worlds. On November 21, at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, musicians Rachel E. Lee ’10, Lucy M. Caplan ’12, and Xin “Cindy” Wang ’10 from Harvard will be among the performers for a piece written by Einziger for 12 strings and 12 guitars. The concert is the opening of a series celebrating West Coast music, to which Einziger has been asked to contribute.
Last Thursday night, FM hiked over to Science Center D to listen to a stick-up boy, a lesbian cop, and a stool pigeon junkie lead a discussion on the inner city before a crowd of Harvard students.
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