Aidan M. Fitzsimons
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A Look at the Dark Room Collective and the Psychedelic Club
When the poet Kevin Young ’92 wrote in his book of cultural criticism, The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness, that “once you’re in, you’re in forever,” he did not mean Harvard, or his house, or a final club. Young meant the Dark Room Collective, one of the dozens of unofficial intellectual societies that have cropped up at Harvard over the centuries.
Fifteen Hottest Doors
Archdoor Franz Doordinand: Self-explanatory.
Venn Diagram: Advising Fortnight/Realizing Freud was Right
Confused? Call your mom.
Venn Diagram: Harvard Radcliffe Merger vs. Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger
What do they have in common? Both involve white men reluctantly acquiescing to desegregation.
One for the Thumb: Patriots Parade
Even after a 45 minute delay, snow-covered New Englanders were lined up 10 bodies deep along the parade barricades.
Dancin’ in the Street: A Silent Disco
The event itself was so much more than just a platform for sharing music. The experience made silently rocking out to your favorite songs perfectly acceptable—even encouraged.
The Conventional Wisdom
When Sruthi Palaniappan ’20 arrived at her hotel in Philadelphia, Pa., last July, she stood in line next to CNN host Wolf Blitzer.
Makin' It Rain
In the fall of 1924, Chaffee officially launched his mission to control the weather.
FM Imagines: The Presidential Candidates Run for UC
FM imagines what the UC campaigns would look like if the current presidential candidates were on the ballot.
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Patriots Parade
The players rode modified truck beds in the Patriot’s fifth Super Bowl victory parade last Tuesday.