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Joke Ticket’s Victory Prompts Students To Wonder If Harvard Could Really ‘Do Worse’
In a year when students elected a ticket running under the slogan “You could do worse,” undergraduates reflected on what the first-ever-winning joke ticket means for student government at Harvard.
Six Rhodes Winners
From left to right, top to bottom, Rhodes Scholarship winners Elizabeth H. Byrne ’14, Alexander J. Diaz ’14, Aurora C. Griffin ’14, Andrew S. Lea ’14, Paolo P. Singer ’14, and Katherine E. Warren ’13.
The Daredevil Bucket List
Earlier this week, Harvard Student Agencies sent out a survey asking for students’ top three Harvard bucket list items, promising one lucky entrant $250 as a prize. With Black Friday right around the corner, that extra pocket change wouldn’t hurt. And since having sex in the stacks, peeing on the John Harvard statue, and doing Primal Scream are too cliché, we’ve come up with three alternative Harvard bucket list items. If you can cross these off your list, you’re the ultimate Harvard student. Or crazy person.
Cooper, Miller Named Title IX Coordinators
The College has appointed a former freshman resident dean and the current case manager of the Administrative Board to serve as its first-ever Title IX coordinators, Dean of Student Life Stephen Lassonde said yesterday.
Blitzstein vs. Elkies Chess Game
Harvard professor Joseph K. Blitzstein makes a move in a chess game against fellow Harvard professor Noam Elkies.
FM Imagines: Harvard-Yale Buses
While trips to the quad are often categorized as “too far to travel,” Harvard students shuttle to The Game at Yale every other year. FM imagines what some of the conversations on these buses might look like.
Chess with Blitzstein & Elkies: The Pawn is Mightier than the Sword
Both Blitzstein and Elkies are known to be terrific chess players. Blitzstein is ranked as an “Expert” by the US Chess Federation, placing him in the 98th percentile of tournament players. Elkies is ranked even one step higher as a “Master,” and specializes in solving and composing chess problems. Both have been playing chess for as long as they can remember, but the serious mathematicians have found it difficult to find time for their favorite game at Harvard. FM asked the two to revive their passion for a quick match of speed chess.
Protest Targets Bank of America
Minutes into a Bank of America recruiting session for Harvard College students on Monday, a group of students ran to the front of the room and pulled out a banner that read: “We Won’t Work for Climate Chaos.”
Abbate To Serve As University Professor
Most people are referring to notes and keys when talking about music, but newly-appointed University Professor Carolyn Abbate sometimes thinks about pre-mortem hallucinations with tuberculosis patients and the physiology of voice when lecturing.
Pre-Med Students Readjust Concentration Choices
Like many pre-medical students not in a science concentration, Haley P. Brown ’15 has struggled to balance her science courseload with classes for her Classics concentration and Spanish citation. As a result of the burden on students like Brown, the number of non-science-concentrating pre-meds has fallen by two-thirds over the past decade, according to the Office of Career Services.
Professor Discusses Intersection of Social Media, Social Justice
Analyzing imagery and rhetoric from Kanye West’s “Gold Digger” to President Barack Obama’s quotations of Jay Z, Duke University professor Mark Anthony Neal emphasized the relationship between social media and social justice at an event hosted by Harvard’s Hiphop Archive & Research Institute yesterday.
Fad Diets: An Investigation
That brought me to The Color Diet, something that I could at least camouflage as healthy. The Color Diet claims to introduce more vitamins into your meals by eating only one color a day. To prepare, I decided to eat a mix of every colored Starburst the night before.