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ANDREW BERRY, Lecturer on Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

What time do you wake up in the morning?

7:06.

Who is your favorite Harvard alum, real or fictional?

Harvard alum? God. President Obama. [Why?] I think he’s a good guy.

Was Larry Summers sexist?

No. I think he was somewhat cruelly misinterpreted.

Who is the smartest person you know?

R. C. Lewontin, who’s an emeritus professor here and who’s an alum, I guess, of this august institution.

What have you always wanted to tell tourists in the Yard?

That’s easy. That the foot they’re touching is a storied repository of undergraduate urine.

What was your most recent CVS purchase?

In my neighborhood I go to Rite Aid. And I think my most recent purchase was clothes washing powder, and I can’t even remember what brand it was, because that’s mandated by my wife. Not a condom in sight, sorry.