Reading FM today one of our staff writers found this little gem:

In case you can’t read that little box quite right, here’s the actual text:
Two true things:
1. Thanks to the Class of 2013, visits to Stillman for alcohol-related issues have reached a historic high
2. The Class of 2013 is the most socioeconomically diverse class in Harvard’s history

Giving no context for these “two true things”, we wonder how FM will defend this. Don’t see what we mean? Publishing these “two true things” is not only totally irrelevant, but implies that the greater socioeconomic diversity at Harvard somehow explains the rise in alcoholism. Transitive property. Y’all are smart, you don’t need us to explain why this is super fucked up.

This weekend at Bright Hockey Center the Harvard Women’s Hockey team, now on a three game winning streak and recently having three of its players tapped to be on the All-ECAC team, will be taking on Princeton first this weekend at the best of three ECAC Hockey quarterfinal series. For the purposes of inspiration, Princeton is Soviet Russia:

GO CRIMSON!!!! (tix are sold out, this game is a big one)

CRUSH CORNELL

Current Records:

Harvard: 17-5 (Ivy: 6-2)

Cornell: 21-4 (Ivy: (7-1)

Wright goes up over two Big Green Defenders for the score

While you were at home catching up on sleep and watching TV, the basketball team was back at school, kicking off Ivy League basketball by defeating Dartmouth in a blowout, 76-47. The team’s star, Jeremy Lin, finished the game with 11 points and six steals, one of which resulted in a highlight-worthy breakaway dunk.  The true star of this game, however, was Keith Wright, who finished with 22 points, three blocks, and six rebounds.  Freshman Kyle Casey was impressive, off the bench, with four blocks and an alley-oop on a pass from guard Oliver McNally. Read the rest of this entry »

There is no denying that the Harvard men’s basketball team has had an incredible year. In fact, it currently has the best start in school history. That is a really long time folks. This school was founded in 1636. Someone can do the math on that. With a current overall record of 12-3, with respectable losses to national basketball powerhouses like UConn (only a seven point deficit) and huge upset wins against Boston College and Seattle, it looks like the Crimson may well be on its way to March Madness. Many media outlets have been abuzz over the incredible performance of senior Jeremy Lin, and predict a possible future in the NBA. With the remaining games left to the Ivy League, the only potential threat is Cornell–who has also had a great year with an overall record of 12-3 as well. Check out the team’s schedule here and make sure to attend the Princeton-Penn weekend February 5-6 in Lavietes Pavilion to cheer on the team. Body paint and loudness recommended.

Go Crimson!

Nooooo, how will I ever find another way to engage in a satisfying intellectual pursuit and procrastinate on my paper ALL AT THE SAME TIME?

At least, that’s the name of a recently created Facebook group that proves that at least 32 people besides me out of 7000 undergrads at Harvard have noticed that the Crimson has stopped printing crossword puzzles in their daily papers. I feel so vindicated knowing that I’m backed in my opinions by such an important part of the student population.

Says the Facebook group’s info page:

This is group has been formed to raise awareness of the Harvard Crimson’s choice to drop the crossword from the paper and try and bring back the Crimson crossword. We are just simple Harvard students from many different backgrounds, united by this shocking turn of events. Seriously, is it that hard to print a daily crossword?

Personally, at first I just assumed they were in a Thanksgiving week slump, but the continued failure of the existence of the daily crossword puzzle has gotten me a little worried. One day, they tried printing a word jumble, and now it’s just HUDS menus.  I mean, what a shocking testament to the decline of print media in our time.

September 25, 1949: Four Harvard students returned from a government-sponsored expedition to the Arctic (link is an announcement of the trip from March). For one dollar a day, you, too, could wander around the North Pole doing construction work for the federal government.

September 25, 1969: Twenty or thirty people attacked the Center for International Affairs (CFIA), roughing up employees and spray-painting “Pig,” “Fuck U.S. Imperialism,” and “Imperialists Screw All Women” on the walls, supposedly to protest the CFIA’s “complicity in counter-revolutionary warfare.” I assume they confused the CFIA with the CIA.

September 25, 1981: $1441 was stolen from the freezer of the Greenhouse Cafe, so I guess they only hide the money and not the bodies in the Science Center’s freezers.