Ted Kaczynski before...

What is the “typical” Harvard alum? Smoking jacket, riding whip, and trophy wife on his arm. WASP extraordinaire. Money-grubbing power-hungry CEO. Hopeless academic. The list goes on as long as the line outside Heaven and Hell (that is before they shut it down).

But, in the spirit of Halloween, it’s important to be reminded that some graduates leave Harv to go on to lives spent not on filling their wallets or on aggrandizing their already-inflated egos, but rather on lengthening their rap sheet.

In which we discuss not-so-nice Harvard alums:

• Ted Kaczynski: Probably the most notorious of criminal crimson alums, Kaczynski unleashed terror and gained infamy by sending pipe bombs, segregating himself from humanity by living off-the-grid in Montana and writing his manifesto.
• Dr John White Webster: When George Parkman didn’t have the money he owed Webster, Webster killed him and hacked his body up in a laboratory at Harvard Medical. Police found portions of the body hidden all through the medical building, but some organs were never found. Read the rest of this entry »

The long-awaited first issue of The Voice will be out tomorrow! To snag a copy, just stop by in front of the Science Center, Annenberg, or your respective House dining hall. It’s a pretty badass issue, so don’t miss it!

Some highlights from our first issue:

• An interview with Ben Moss, Spring Awakening star and member of the Class of 2013
• Bromances are good things
• Building a recession-friendly wardrobe without breaking the bank in these Dickensian times
• Marco Chan ’11 speaks about the LGBT community at Harvard
• “Sex Ed” – A new series by Lena Chen of Sex and the Ivy fame and Christine Yu, columnist for MIT’s The Tech
• Does the Quad really suck?
• Studying abroad at Harvard and if it actually happens
• And lots more to suit your fancy!