Won't Get Fooled Again

It looked too good to be true. Posters advertising a speech by Frank Farian, "former producer of Milli Vanilli speaking on: Lip-Synching and the Law" dotted the campus this week. The poster looked like others announcing events at the Law School forum, so a Crimson reporter was dispatched to cover the auspicious event.

One hour later, the reporter was still standing, along with four or five other fools, outside the locked doors of the Ames Courtroom. Law school employees working in the building vowed that no one, and certainly not Milli Vanilli's producer, had been scheduled to speak that night.

"It seems like we've been duped," our reporter overheard one would-be audience member grumbling.

It wouldn't be the first time.

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Not Quite the Same

This week, Cambridge City Councillor Edward N. Cyr likened the city's pending search for its first-ever police commissioner to Harvard's process for selecting a new president.

"How are we to find the best leader to run our department? Without doubt, we want to choose from as large a pool as possible, including candidates from across the country," Cyr said. "If we were to chose a present member from within the department by administering a civil service test, it would be like Harvard giving all of its professors an exam and awarding the presidency to the person with the highest score."

Funny, the Harvard search committee never considered that method. But now that they mentioned it...