www.youtube.com/watch?v=170xV1inVhw

Event is Saturday, February 25th.  Be sure to pick up a ticket fast, because Cultural Rhythms sells out every year.

However, something miraculous happened the next Tuesday. Excited chatter echoed throughout Annenberg. After receiving multiple texts about the event, I immediately rushed to the Berg. I weaved my way to the center table, wondering, “Could it be?”  Yes, it was true – Annenberg had fresh fruit. Freshmen swarmed the table, startled by the fruit salad, blueberries, grapes, pineapples, and strawberries. These items felt so foreign and valuable. I piled my plate with pineapple and skeptically surveyed the hall – what was going on?

It turns out these weren’t one-time inexplicable events. Spring semester has breathed new life into the dining halls. Trying to create more diverse selection of meals, HUDS has tweaked their menu and added exciting new options.

Here are just a few of the new items to check out:

1. Make-Your-Own Korean Barbecue
2. Fresh Fruit Tuesdays
3. New fro-yo flavors (Wild blueberry and pomegranate? Wild is right.)
4. Muffin Make-Over (Fewer calories and more exciting flavors like Orange-Cranberry.)
5. More vegetarian options

If all of this is too much for you to handle, don’t fret – there will always be Tofu Parmesan and Obscure Chickpea Mush to make you remember the value of a home-cooked meal.

If you missed out on the Abe Liu scandal because you were hiding under some kind of sound-proof rock, then read this for the scoop.

Lyrics:

From undrafted to talk of the league
From afterthought to all over TV,
I tell you hard work is the key, but uh
This is what can happen when you dream
I’m Jeremy Lin

6 foot 3, with a 4.2
Grade point average, not vertical
Overlooked by every single team,
But never once did he let it hamper his dream,
First in the gym, last one done
Proving Hard work pays off in the long run
killed em in the previous summer
Dropped a career high when the coach finally called his number

Cut off the roster from Golden State
Knew his time was coming, so he chose to wait
Never know when you gonna get up in the game
But he made his moment count in the biggest of ways,
New York City the worlds Greatest stage,
now 20,000 rabid fans scream his name
Wasnt recruited for his ball skills,
Now you gotta wonder how they all feel,
Didnt quit, he only worked harder
went from Harvard graduate to NBA starter
the haters gonna hate and call him lucky
First ivy leaguer in the league since Chris Dudley
Must be some kinda desire
To make everybody who doubted you out to be a liar…
And even if it only lasts a moment,
Jeremy Lin took it and owned it,
You gotta respect it

From undrafted to talk of the league
From afterthought to all over TV,
I tell you hard work is the key, but uh
This is what can happen when you dream
I’m Jeremy Lin

What’s awesome about this entire story is not just that Lin is a fellow Harvardian, but the amount of work and heart the NBA player has put into getting to this stage of his career. Lin was cut by two different teams in the pre-season, and received only scant playing opportunities at the beginning of the regular season with the Knicks. His teammates believed in him, though. As Knicks center Tyler Chandler said, “We’ve been saying that [Lin] has talent in practice, but we didn’t know if it would translate in the game…He’s obviously showing all of us that he can.”

#swag

I think it’s safe to say no matter what team we hold our allegiances to in the NBA, most of us here at Harvard are rooting for you, Jeremy.

See some more gems as this thing, no doubt, blows up here.

Information Session: Wednesday, February 8th, 8PM

@Ticknor Lounge

RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/events/185886511519371/

#Tooreal.

Actor Jason Segel – best-known for his portrayal of Marshall Eriksen in the hit television show How I Met Your Mother - has been spotted in and around Harvard Square since Wednesday evening.

Segel was allegedly seen imbibing alone at Grendel’s on February 1.

Today, this shot of the actor was taken in the Yard:

(Photo credit: Casey Thomson '13.)

Segel is in town to accept his honor as the Hasty Pudding Man of the Year on February 3.

And the countdown to fangirl it up starts…NOW.

When the actress was asked during a recent event in Cambridge why she had quit Yale after only two years of enrollment, Danes facetiously replied, “I just couldn’t stand the school.” To make clear that all was in good humor, the starlet graciously backtracked, saying, “Nah, school just wasn’t for me. I had too much on my plate.”

Claire Danes, the winner of several Golden Globe and Emmy Awards for her versatile on-screen roles – from fifteen-year-old Angela Chase in My So-Called Life, to CIA agent Carrie Mathison in Homeland – was named The Hasty Pudding Theatrical’s Woman of The Year for 2012.  The actress accepted the honor on January 26 with an appearance at Harvard and participation in a cadre of raucous Hasty Pudding-themed events.

Harvard's chosen drag queens, ready to usher their Woman of The Year 2012.

Posing with the ladies.

Huge crowd along Dunster Street.

After first being paraded along Mass Ave. in an open Bentley with a couple of Harvard’s best drag queens, Danes was ushered into the New College Theatre (oh wait, Farkas Hall?) to attend The Roast of Claire Danes. The actress was called on to the stage to respond impromptu to a selection of Hasty Pudding shenanigans, two of which involved the actress competing in a dance showdown with a mock human-computer and reciting a poem about a certain feminine body part.

The roast was followed by a preview of The Hasty Pudding Theatrical’s upcoming show There Will Be Flood, as well as a Q&A and photo session with the Pudding team.

Danes’ closing thoughts about our fair institution? “I think I would have been happy to go to school here.”

Damn straight, you would have.

Danes' husband, actor Hugh Dancy, in the background

Q&A with the Hasty Pudding.

Lady Gaga’s newest endeavor, the Born This Way Foundation, is set to launch this year at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. It will be a one day event co-hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and The California Endowment. The Born This Way Foundation is a non-profit group that will reach out to youths in campaigns aimed at reducing bullying and creating a more accepting and empathetic culture. Kathleen McCartney, Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, said: “We share the spirit of the Born This Way Foundation in our commitment to inspire social change, empower youth, and foster moral communities. It is an honor to host this historic event on our campus.” The event will be held on February 29th. More information can be found at the Foundation’s website.