The Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream truck will be serving free ice cream in Harvard Square today from 4 to 5 p.m. Be sure to follow their Twitter for updates on their exact location!

As we understand it, you can't exactly stroll into any final club without being a member or guest. But Aaron Sorkin, the mastermind behind "The West Wing," "A Few Good Men," and now "The Social Network," got a lucky break.

Apparently, Sorkin was given a guided tour of Harvard's final clubs by Benjamin A. Mezrich '91—the author of "The Accidental Billionaires," on which the Facebook movie is based—while he was "researching" the screenplay for his movie.

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Bored? Not that creative? Simply out of other ideas?

Fear not, for you, too, can write a Harvard novel!

Here’s the recipe: in an environment that’s more of a pressure cooker than a melting pot, mix together a pinch of class war, a handful of post-high school hormones, and the uncooked cutlets of an existential quest on the part of an undeveloped protagonist. If you can find them, maybe throw in some alluring allusions to the names of real famous people, but, if not, no worries. Just go ahead and dump the whole thing on a plate, and dish it up with gusto. You might just have yourself a bestseller.

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Travis R. Kavulla ’06-’07 has more than a hat and slick website backing his bid to be Commissioner of the Public Service Commission—the Montana native has a rich past that involves an active undergraduate career at Harvard, The National Review, Kenya, and energy policy.

“I've always been kind of an energy policy nerd,” Kavulla said in an interview with FlyBy, right before he left for a hiking trip.

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Harvard is never quite the same once you actually become a student here. Before you commence those four years spent face-down on the wooden desks of Lamont in despair, you think that a lot of things about Harvard are pretty cool. Like the chemically-enhanced green grass in the Yard. The buildings that look old enough to have housed tea parties for John Harvard himself. The classes, the professors, the glamour of academia—everything. Name one thing about Harvard, and it'll send an ambitious high schooler into a tizzy.

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What does the President of the Dominican Republic think about the Harvard Book Store?

From what we gathered in a short conversation with Leonel Fernández Reyna at the store's quaint premises on Mass. Ave. last night, he thinks it's pretty swell—especially that massive, book-churning robot called the Paige M. Gutenborg Book Machine, which can print a 300-page paperback in about four minutes.

"I have seen the future," Fernández said.

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For those of you who couldn't get close enough to the film crews shooting on Holyoke St. last year, the new full-length trailer for The Social Network that was released today should provide the most thorough look yet into the highly anticipated film about the founding of Facebook and its Harvard roots.

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