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Rachel M. Wehr
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Punches Fly, Blood Splatters at Fight Night in the Plaza
Blood splattered across the shoulders of boxer Robert Z. Cai '14 on Wednesday night as he continued throwing punches despite a bleeding nose.
List-servs We Wish We Were On
The Harvard Computer Society keeps archives of all College list-servs, including their names as well as the emails exchanged through them. Many of these archives are only accessible to members of the lists themselves, but plenty of them are wide open. Let that sink in for a moment. Remember that email full of Spider-Man gifs you sent across your dorm list freshman year? It’s accessible until the end of time. And that’s just the beginning of what FM found. We now know your secrets.
Harvard Salaries by the Numbers
As this week’s Scrutiny focuses on tenure at Harvard, FM takes a look into how our professors are actually doing ...
What Your Freshman Dorm Posters Say About You
Breakfast at Tiffany’s Nothing brings sophistication to a dorm room like an eight-dollar poster of Audrey Hepburn. As she coolly surveys your scattered party dresses and unmade bed, Audrey is confident in you. Your secret that your “pearl” earrings are from Forever21 will be safe with her. If Holly Golightly can go from country bumpkin to a Manhattan socialite, surely you can nail down that coffee-fetching publishing internship in New York this summer. Or at least learn to do your laundry a classier number of times per month.
In Science Center, Microbiology Class Puts Science On Stage
Microbiology 213: "Social Issues in Biology" delves deeply into the ethical issues that connect biology and medicine to the human experience. Professor Beckwith has taught this class for over 20 years, but this is the first year that the class has produced a theater piece.
Buy Bras and Crocs to Support Harvard?
The Harvard Management Company certainly isn't headed to the thrift shop with nearly $31 billion dollars in their pockets. Harvard's investments in Smith & Wesson, one of the largest gun distributors in the United States, recently raised concern among alums and current students in the Responsible Investment at Harvard Coalition. But one investment is small potatoes for the HMC. Even if they choose to divest from Smith & Wesson, they'll still have money to blow on high-end retail, tacky shoes, and even entire countries. You name it—Harvard has probably already invested in it.
Speak Up, You’re Not Alone.
Visitors to the new "Harvard Speaks Up" website are greeted by familiar faces—those of their peers and their advisors, their professors, and their housemasters. None of the submissions are anonymous. Harvard's Student Mental Health Liaisons launched the electronic twist on their public forum this week. All members of the Harvard community—students, alumni, faculty, and staff—are invited to upload short videos sharing their mental health experiences. Participants describe their own obstacles and and how they have coped. All videos end with the phrase, "Speak up, you're not alone.”
Quiz: Spring Break
Somewhere past the impending midterm season is the heavenly, sun-tanned mirage of Spring Break 2013. Not sure about what you’re ...
Game of Thrones
At Harvard, it can be difficult to tell history from myth. Archives, legends, and centuries-old student organizations all do their ...
Probing Identity in Kinetic ‘CryHurtFood’
The physical movements of chimpanzees and their researchers are the last place where you would expect to find a haunting exploration of humanity itself.
Preview: Life is a Dream
The Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) will move this play onto the modern stage while preserving the style of the original work—right down to the proper length of the actors’ pauses in dialogue—in its new production.
Passing on the Gift of Music
When musicians perform, they create a mood that lasts until the last patron leaves the concert hall—but it seldom moves ...
Monastic Music in Modernity
Harvard’s Gregorian chanting group brings an ancient musical tradition to life.
