The sweet sound of a sax hits your ears. Coltrane is evident, but the sound is original. The ambience is intimate, the coffee you’re sipping tasty, and the crowd jibes with the performer. While you might think you’re in a hip café in Davis Square, the reality is that you only need to head up Garden Street to Hilles to experience this artful musical experiment, Acoustic Tuesdays.
Like some Biblical pestilence—befitting the recent conclusion of Passover—the Red Folders descended upon the green pastures of Harvard last weekend. With equal parts bewilderment and enthusiasm, future members of the Class of 2012 invaded our lectures, dormitories, and parties.
Following the proverb “Drop by drop you make a river,” a group of female undergrads is making a difference $30 by $30.
Even with all the lectures spent facebooking and hours of Web stalking, it’s hard to know for sure exactly what’s being written on the walls of your friends. In their ongoing effort to make procrastination easier, Facebook.com created Facebook Lexicon, a feature that tracks when and how often any given word appears on a wall or event page. So, in our ongoing effort to make procrastination even easier, FM decided to do the work for you (you’re welcome!), and hunt down all the buzz words to help you see what you’re missing.
At 6:55 a.m. the Yard is quiet, except for the beeping of a truck in reverse and the fluttering of posters. The neon-green grass looks perky, and even the homeless man picking bottles out of the trash seems strangely idyllic.
Haven’t played spin the bottle since middle school? Well, you were still out of luck if you attended Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisers’ (DAPA) “Spin the Bottle”, which featured awkward discussions about drinking rather than awkward making out.
Hey, Adam K. Demuyakor ’11, Mr. Eleganza 2008, do you have any spring fashion advice for the students of Harvard?
While most associate Memorial Church with Sunday morning services and painfully-early morning bells, last Tuesday night featured a different sort of event in the sanctuary: a debate about God.
Favorite Quotes: “I’m not the woman President of Harvard, I’m the President of Harvard.” – me
Harvard’s leading lady, Drew Gilpin Faust, answered 20 questions about her new book, “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War,” at an event last Thursday. Unfortunately, FM couldn’t make it (and the questions were vetted in advance), but here are the 20 questions we would have liked her to answer.
Elizabeth S. Berylson '08