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(Source: SBNation.)

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Did you love the Harvard Douchebag meme, but thought that it kind of misrepresented our student body? I mean, we’re not all douchebags, here, right? There are still some good guys at Harvard, right?

Now that we’ve sounded just a little needy and insecure, here’s the Harvard Good Guy meme to make us all feel a little less pretentious. A little sweet to go with the sour, if you will.

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Not only is Lady Gaga coming later this month, but John Legend is Cultural Rhythms Artist of the Year for 2012.

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

It was your typical Sunday mid-afternoon. Bleary-eyed freshmen dragged themselves to Annenberg, recounting stories from the night before. However, upon entering the Berg, they were transported. White tablecloths dressed each table, roses adorned the room, and John the expert card-swiper was sporting a beret. Confused, the freshmen surveyed the situation. No, they weren’t still drunk – all of the dining halls had been transformed into French bistros for the afternoon. After enjoying crêpes, brie, and baguettes, the students left Paris and re-entered Cambridge. Personally, I assumed the brunch was some bizarre isolated event for HUDS.

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.

It’s pretty poppin’. It was published today by YouTube user “random2g” who goes by Mega Ran. The single can be downloaded here.

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

On February 6, the New York Knicks won two consecutive games for the first time since early January. After only sixteen minutes of play in his first two weeks as a player with the Knicks, followed by his rampant success in tonight’s game and the last, Jeremy Lin ’10 has created quite the buzz in the basketball world. “I definitely couldn’t have imagined this,” the former Harvard player said after scoring a career-high 28 points and handing out eight assists in his first NBA start, a 99-88 win over the Jazz.

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.