Reading for pleasure around campus. I was on a ferry miles away from Boston when I started reading Nabokov’s Pale Fire, a book I had been saving for a long time. There was this paragraph in the middle of the book that I, as a Literature major, wanted to examine more deeply, but I eventually figured […]
The city of unequalled vibrancy and energy is waiting for you. Oscar Wilde once said, “Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” At Harvard, and in greater Boston, it is difficult to tell which imitates which. As incoming freshmen will soon experience, life at Harvard is characterized by unequalled vibrancy and ubiquitous variety. […]
Things to do freshman year: Primal Scream—no matter how much you prepare, all semblance of warmth will be gone in a second. Keep a moderate pace—the Yard is longer than it seems. Comp the Indy. Duh? Go to a final club. Never go back. Recover from final clubbing with Felipe’s or IHOP. Celebrate a friend’s […]
Secretary of State Clinton’s visit to the continent is welcome, but more needs to be done. Africa is a continent whose news coverage in the United States has been primarily dedicated to its characteristic proliferation of diseases, civil wars, and poverty. It was about time for it to be cast in a more positive light, […]
My summer eating, traveling, and finding true love in the Pearl of Africa. How do I even begin to describe life in Uganda? I guess I could try describing it the way books do: Uganda is incredibly diverse in terms of people and of geography. Uganda is home to sixty-five indigenous communities and boasts a […]
It’s been 27 years since the first video, “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the Buggles, aired on MTV, and oh how some of us on the Indy long for the years when the only thing MTV transmitted on its airwaves were images of sexy British men in the jungle. In that spirit, and in […]
Without going into any details that everyone already knows about the whole Ingrid-Betancourt-is-miraculously-alive-and-the-FARC-website-is-now-crappy thing, we would like to congratulate the Latino gossip blog Guanabee, for pointing out the real reason that every other virile young straight girl/gay boy is so deeply invested in this news: Lorenzo Betancourt-Delloye, her son.
Here’s an Oldie but Goodie from the 2007 US Open Series. Of particular comedic note are Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, and Maria Sharapova: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv0wgkINXBA&feature=related]
Quincy’s DHall staff congratulates the house on a successful year.