Christmas is about people, not God. Many people say that tragedy can shake an atheist’s faith. As a young student, I don’t think I’ve experienced enough tragedy to test my firm belief in the non-existence of God. But I have felt my beliefs tested, not by sadness but by joy — the sublime joy I […]
So the UC campaign is over, and how does this little Harvard Indy blogger feel? Well, tired. It was a long run (one that I was a part of), and as the days progressed, the expected became more and more inevitable regarding the winners of the presidency and vice-presidency, but the unexpected certainly came true […]
Candidates outline their vision for the Undergraduate Council. Why are you running for the UC? Martel* / Zimmermann: As freshmen, we heard UC candidates to the presidency and vice-presidency give wild speeches about how they were going to change the undergraduate experience and fulfill dozens of promises. These promises were broken. As sophomores, we were slightly […]
As the presidential election nears its close, three tickets want your vote. When a new Undergraduate Council President steps into office in February, he or she will inherit the leadership of a student government that has been sharply criticized for its dealings with University Hall. A speech by current UC president Ryan Petersen ’08 at […]
Rick Santorum speaks at Harvard amid protests and controversy. In a controversial speech last week, former senator Rick Santorum urged Harvard students to fight against radical Islam. The event, entitled “The Gathering Storm of the 21st Century: America’s War Against Islamic Fascism,” was met with both applause and protests. The speech took place on Monday, […]
The Country Music Awards get it all wrong. In retrospect, the Star Trek-esque logo for this year’s Academy of Country Music Awards was an ominous sign. Don’t get me wrong; my love for Star Trek is bottomless and immense. And there’s certainly room for cross-fertilization between sci-fi and country. But mainstream country’s current tendency toward the new, shiny, […]
This is just a quick blurb, ladies and gentlemen, and I apologize in advance to the non-Spanish speakers. At the Iberoamerican Conference in Chile today, President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and President Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero of Spain got into a little scuffle after Chavez continually interrupted Zapatero to make the point that his predecessor, […]
Now, I’m no sports nut, but I have found it suprisingly easy to scream insults at those blustering Bulldogs every year at the Game. A little scouring of the Onion’s archives proves that even America’s Finest News Source agrees: Yale sucks. First of all, a search for Yale yields only 44 results. Harvard? 95. We’re […]
Beach Party is well within the threshold of awesome. America, when you come right down to it, is a strange, strange place, not that you’d know it to look at the movies our entertainment industry churns out on a weekly basis. Pressured to recoup huge production costs and make movies that will play in both […]
As the Indy Arts romance beat reporter, I bring you the best celeb gossip story EVER (via smartbitchestrashybooks.com, your best source for romance news and snark). From the blog of the New Republic (yeah, wrap your head around that, real quick): According to numerous eyewitnesses, George suspected the woman was snapping photos of him and […]