students

How do you separate a Harvard student from a sheep?

adamg — Sat, 03 May 2008 20:04:39 -0400

Harvard University Police want to find out.

When the children of cheesemaking Duxbury residents go off to college

adamg — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:34:49 -0400

One of the first things they do is start whining to administrators that their $50,000 a year should buy them common areas where the couches aren't haphazardly arranged, the Globe's Sarah Schweitzer informs us, in another of her exposes on the seamy underbelly of the overclass.

You can always tell a Harvard man, and if he's a freshman, you can tell him what to do

adamg — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:21:06 -0400

J.L. Bell posts a copy of the official rules for Harvard freshmen in 1741, such as:

No Freshman shall be saucy to his Senior, or speak to him with his hat on.

Thank God: Recent court ruling on public nudity won't stop Harvard students from running naked through the Yard

adamg — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:58:30 -0400

Make a note in your calendar for May 14, because that's when Harvard has its semi-annual Primal Scream naked-butt run. The Crimson reports the run will go on despite a recent Supreme Judicial Court ruling that people can be charged with open and gross conduct for disrobing in public.

No, it's not the Men and Women of Harvard showing their disdain for the laws of the Commonwealth, but because, the paper reports, the ruling only applies to public displays of nudity in which bystanders are not alerted (the Lady Godiva doctrine), and everybody knows the last night of "reading period" at Harvard is when people get nekkid.

Phew.

Rain doesn't stop them.

Modest women are offended.

Seeing your ex naked in public is just so awkward, especially when you're in the arms of your current flame (keep reading for proof that, yes, Lena Chen has run naked through the Yard).

Bathroom facilities are sparse, so plan ahead.

Little known fact: Running naked is kosher.

Naked Harvard butts.

Presumably the Cambridge Chronicle will attempt to upstage the Somerville Journal with even better coverage of naked college students.

MIT prepares for attack

adamg — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:39:04 -0400

Zombie attack.

Via MetaBoston.

Uh oh: The president of the Harvard Crimson is opposed to renaming Plympton Street

adamg — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:57:54 -0400

There's trouble in River City as the city proposes renaming tiny Plympton Street as Halberstam Street to honor the memory of the late journalist and Harvard alum. As the Crimson reports:

... [Crimson President Malcom A.] Glenn and current managing editor Paras D. Bhayani '09 recently wrote a letter to the City Council, asking that the council refrain from renaming the street. Glenn said that while he is in favor of honoring Halberstam, he and other past and present Crimson reporters are very attached to the 14 Plympton St. address.

In his letter, Glenn said he suggested adding "Halberstam" as an honorary, but not official, part of the street name. ...

A Common complaint

adamg — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:04:50 -0400

The Tab reports police filed a license violation against the Common Ground on Harvard Avenue after a woman allegedly committed "assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (pint glass)" on April 5 by throwing her stein at another patron, getting him in the face and sending him to the hospital (report does not state if the pint glass still had beer in it).

The police blotter also contains some useful advice for BU students: Roommates might not appreciate having their shampoo bottles filled with what appears to be semen or having male genitalia drawn on their dry-erase boards and so might call the police (who will then advise the lot of you to go seek some counseling at BU).

The inevitable lawsuit

adamg — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:53:38 -0400

Michael Pahre considers the legal case lawyers could be building even now against the city's new five-students-and-you're-out law.

The sex lives of Harvard students

adamg — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:42:20 -0400

So, so fascinating. Please, New York Times, tell us more!

Man falls 30 feet at Allston party, lives

adamg — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:34:01 -0400

Off a Prince Street balcony around 12:30 a.m..

Earlier:
Fatal Allston party fall.