That pesky economy isn't keeping Harvard from continuing its takeover of the neighborhood. Harry Mattison reports on its latest acquisition and provides a handy map showing just what the U owns these days.

Larry Lessig, who gave us Creative Commons, is moving from Stanford to Harvard, where he'll become director of Harvard's Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, at which he plans to develop a program to try to fight American corruption.

The Crimson reports Harvard's endowment shrank 22% - that's $8 billion - in just four months. The paper notes that just the loss is more than the endowments of all other colleges in the country, save Stanford, MIT, Yale and Princeton.

The Crimson reports a senior faces a variety of criminal charges after allegedly breaking into at least two dorm rooms - and demanding that the occupant of one of them chat with him about his economics homework:

... "It is my sincere hope that the material taught in Ec 10 will provide a catalyst for discussion among students beyond the classroom," N. Gregory Mankiw, the professor of Ec 10, wrote in an e-mailed statement. "There are, however, better ways for that discussion to take place," he added.

After all, Clark knows all about weathering downtown.

Ed. note: Yeah, like I never make typos, but this is a good one, darnit.

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Cambridge Police report that a Harvard grad student who stepped out of Grendel's Den around 11:51 p.m. yesterday was attacked:

... A white male asked the victim for a smoke. The suspect then punched the victim in the mouth. The victim defended himself by fighting back. During the fight, the suspect stole the victim's iPod. The suspect fled up Winthrop St. toward Eliot St.

The Crimson reports Boston Police are relaxing tough anti-boozing policies to let Harvard "houses" serve free wine and beer to over-21 students at pre-Game tailgate parties before the annual football match against the men of Yale.

The tougher restrictions were enacted after hordes of drunken Game attendees needed to be carted away to local hospitals and lockups for excessive drunkenness in 2004.

Alas for alcohol-seeking Crimsons, the city is keeping its ban on kegs (also, rental trucks):

... It forces us to be more creative in terms of what we have to do to have a fun tailgate," said Jeffrey C. Holder '09, Dunster HoCo co-chair. "We can't just throw a keg out there and play loud music." ...

The Crimson reports that some students at the school are so upset by a turkey in their midst that they have, gasp, set up a Facebook group to protest its presence.

The Crimson reports a Harvard undergraduate was hit from behind and then robbed as she walked down Garden Street around 9:15 p.m. on Sunday, a few days after a Harvard student walking through Cambridge Common was attacked from behind and robbed (also see: Woman robbed, punched in the face in Harvard Yard).

Fox in Detox reports she might have wound up at the same exact place at the same time, only she couldn't find a parking space in time to make her evening class at Harvard - and that, according to an alert from Harvard police, the woman was listening to her iPod at the time:

... The officer's asked her if she heard her assailant coming. Her answer was no, she didn't hear him, because she was WEARING HER STUPID IPOD, while walking alone, at night, down a dark, deserted, street. She didn't see anything wrong with that.

She might as well wear a sign that says "I'm not paying attention, MUG ME!" ...

There's strong demand for Harvard sperm, although simply being a Harvard man is no longer enough.