"Aca-pantsless": How wooing should be done.

And it begins. Male final clubs haven’t been shy in the least about their initiation shenanigans this week. Initiated members could be found in public places doing very embarrassing things. Noice is on the lookout for you to capture and edify this week’s tomfoolery.

Shenanigan #1: Today, a little before the scandalous class Lit & Sex, Phoenix S.K.  gentlemen, posed as the “Aca-pantsless”, charmed (or blasphemed?) Sanders Theater with a special rendition of “Mr. Sandman.” Some claim Professor Kaiser sported an amused smirk throughout the performance.

Shenanigan #2: Gentlemen of the Fox shamelessly rock out in front of Memorial Church with Rock Band. Again, bow ties.

Fox band. Cute.

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Or not.

Produced by a group called Back of the Class. And yeah. We don’t really know much about this “LA-based group of comedy writer/director/performers”, but since DerrickComedy isn’t making videos about us we’ll settle for this. Also: the dudes are all Tufts grads. Hmmm.

Those depressed about not going to another school to take English 111: “Critical Approaches to Harry Potter” or “The Simpsons and Society” may find some kind of silver screen compensation next academic year.

Recently announced at a panel with various sociology and African-American Studies professors, Harvard plans to offer a course on the HBO series “The Wire,” a show about slum life in Baltimore. William J. Wilson, a self-admitted follower of the show and who will teach “Social Structure and culture in the Study of Race and Urban Poverty” this spring, will assume teaching responsibilities for the new course, which is already stirring up excitement among student fans. Sonja Sohn, who plays Kima Greggs, was also present at the panel.

To which we say… when are we going to see “The Theory of Arrested Development” on the course selection tool?

CS50 professor David Malan has introduced a specialized feed for CS50-related Harvard FML posts on CS50’s main website. Is this cool? Totally. Is this also sad? Totally. While CS50 is one of the most popular and most talked about classes at Harvard, it seems like its latest p-set has caused students more grief than is desirable. Oh well. Keep submitting those coding frustrations to Harvard FML!

Side note: Check out the pretty sweet CS50 logo customized just in time for Halloween. Noice thinks Malan is a pretty cool guy.

Last night I tried to explain the production of Sleep No More to someone at Harvard who had yet to hear anything about it. “Well you see, it’s an adaptation of Macbeth… but there are no words….and there isn’t a stage… and it’s actually in this big old school building… and you wear this weird mask… and you have to follow characters around to figure out what is going on…but you never actually know what is going on.” I realized about halfway through my explanation that not only was I not doing the production the justice it deserved, but also I myself was not entirely sure how to explain the experience that was Sleep No More.  The production, created by a London based group called Punchdrunk Theatricals known for their installation immersive theater in Europe, was brought to Boston this year by the A.R.T.. in an attempt to bring this new experience of theater to America. It certainly was an experience, and by far the most interesting one I have had in a while.

On Saturday night, I ventured out of Harvard Square with three friends to a place Harvard students would not journey to if it weren’t for the prospect of free theater required by one of our classes. Two subway lines and one hour later we arrived in what felt like the middle of nowhere, Massachusetts, otherwise known as Brookline. I’m sure in the light of day Brookline is just another respectable and well-to-do suburb of Boston. However, on a cold night when you are holding a small slip of directions that more or less ends with, “Follow the small hard-to-find path up to the looming school building on your right. ” you are more than willing to huddle closer to those with whom you came. Once you finally find the Old Lincoln School Building (which is the name of the venue on your ticket), Cambridge already feels very far away. But incase you are not entirely out of your comfort zone yet, you are ushered through a black corridor and are forced to navigate your way to the Manderlay Bar, a night club signaling the other influence of the production, Alfred Hitchcocks 1940 film Rebecca. There are servants to greet you, music, and other patrons waiting with drinks in hand for their turn to enter the “show” portion of the night. About twenty minutes later my group was called and we finally entered into the world we had come to see. Read the rest of this entry »

Students dig in front of Matthews Hall

If you’ve passed through the Yard lately, you’ll probably have noticed a peculiar site: students digging wayyyy down deep into the earth. Is this even allowed?!

The answer is yes. Why you ask? Well, that’s the best part: all the digging is actually for a class, Anthropology 1130: Archaeology of Harvard Yard. Yes. There is a class at Harvard that allows you to dig in Harvard Yard. How awesome is that?

Today and yesterday, students from Anthropology 1130: Archaeology of Harvard Yard as well as Anthropology 1010: The Fundamentals of Archaeological Methods & Reasoning have been excavatin’ away to find remains of the Indian College at Harvard, one of Harvard’s first buildings, which stood from the 1650’s until 1698. Read more to see what kinds of stuff they found.

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Oh man. It's a night to remember for THIS lady.

Students in Diane Paulus and Marjorie Garber’s popular class titled Theater, Dream, Shakespeare got to have a little taste of the discotheque this past week. The class, which focuses on exactly what its title suggests, allows all students a free season pass to the A.R.T.’s Shakespeare Exploded festival. Sweet deal, right?

The first performance of the season students were able to attend was titled The Donkey Show. (And yes. It’s every bit of what you think it is. Well…okay, not really, but sort of.) The show is a disco adaptation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Paulus (of Hair fame) herself, and is performed in Club Oberon — a disco-club-meets-theater-stage on 2 Arrow Street. In the spirit of audience-actor interaction, all students received “dancefloor tickets,” in which everyone got to boogie down with the actors of the show. After the show, the party continues into the night so everyone can break it down on the dancefloor (or on stage)!

Read on as Voice reporter Katie McNicol ‘12 puts on her boogie shoes, gets down with glittery half-naked men, and loses herself in this dream-disco world which Paulus has created. Warning: Some semi-scandalous photos ahead — but you know you like it.

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