For the 90% of you undergrads that weren’t present in Sanders Theater for CS50 today: you missed quite a lecture. Well to be fair, even those in attendance probably missed most of what was going on due to a number of outbursts in the orchestra section.

A rather scruffy looking individual sitting in the lower section (pictured above), shouted intermittently at Professor David Malan over the course of the 1.5-hour lecture.

Most noteworthy among his loudly spoken outbursts were things that made us blush and giggle uncomfortably. Phrases like: “C**k!“, “WTF?“,  and “This is crap, this is total crap!“ At around the middle of the lecture about pointers and RAM, he even shouted, “ZUCKERBERG!” 

Within an hour, this man’s seating row was completely vacated of students, leaving him more or less free to lay across the bench, make unnerved faces, and make wild, rhythmic hand gestures (what was described by one individual as “a crazy swap dance”). David Malan to his credit, handled the situation rather equanimously, even entertaining the man’s inquiry as to why he kept using the phrase “sanity check.” During a break in the lecture, Malan came down from the stage  to speak to the disruptive individual. And that was pretty much that.

We won’t speculate as to who or what this man was about, but we can say this: he sure as heck wasn’t taking any notes.

If you wanna see how it all went down, listen carefully for the expletive exclamations on the Week 5, Monday video at cs50.net.

Last year, someone took a big ol’ poo in Quincy (and then stuffed it in a dropbox) and what WHAT what, it’s happened again, but this time in the Quad. We received this message that was sent over Pfoho’s house mailing list, and oh how we cringed.

“I stepped out of my room in Wolbach this morning and was greeted by an awful smell. Then I noticed a giant pile of shit on the stairwell between the second and third floors. I don’t know who’s responsible for the act itself and I wouldn’t care if the mess could somehow clean itself up. But it can’t. And the custodians should not have to deal with it. If you know who might have done it (whether you were with them when they did or hosted one of the watering holes they passed through on what must have been a pretty crazy night) please get in touch with that person and tell them to come over to the Wolbach stairwell and clean up their mess. Restore my faith in humanity because right now I’m pretty pissed off.”

Party fouls happen, but that’s no excuse to take a dump on the stairs. Also, once is an accident and twice a coincidence. One more doodie incident will turn this whole situation into a big shitty pattern. Let’s not let it get that far, mmm?

STOP IT, KAY?

Yeah, she aimed high. And when her mother was unwilling to co-sign the loan for the ridiculously ostentatious piece of metal, Rachel got violent. That is, she pulled out a 9mm gun, pistol whipped her mother across the face, and made her drive to the dealership at gunpoint where she placed the gun in her purse and her mother signed the loan. Congratulations, she owns a car. Her mother alerted the authorities while Rachel was at school the next day, claiming that she didn’t want her daughter to be prosecuted because it would jeopardize her Ivy League acceptances and scholarship offers. That ship may have already set sail…

Mugshot FTW

Too bad. The fuzz promptly locked Rachel up in a juvenile detention facility and confiscated the gun. By the way, the gun was stolen from a Lee County Port Authority Law Enforcement officer in early July 2010. So WTF is up with that?

Crazybitch Video HERE

It’s unclear which Ivies Rachel was accepted to, but it’s safe to assume that she won’t be present for Visitas this year.

No seriously. A few guys in Leverett are playing the Lev Housing Video with music on to the Old Quincy side wall (the wall facing Leverett). Check it out, people!

Mad props to our hip New York Harvard gals for making it to video vixen status before graduation. See, this way it’s ironic. Ten years from now, maybe not.

OMG MOOSE!

Unless you have been living under a rock, are Amish, or were raised by wolves, you must be aware of the phenomenon that is Twitter and how it is taking the world by storm. Everyone from professional athletes to to acne-covered tweens is tweeting, but there is one particular account that caught our eye at the Voice.

The account name is “Harvard Hoochies” and the bio reads that the account holder(s) are “BU biddies, hooching and husband hunting at Harvard Final Clubs. We ward off RUHGs (random ugly Harvard girls)…frequently.”

One gem of a post reads, “when you slip a final club man your number, make sure it’s not on a piece of historical paper with their founders’ story#oopsydaisies” while another boasts, “Owl, ad, fly… All conquered last night”.

BU Biddies talking after a successful night of Final Club raging...

To follow the BU biddies on their search for love, money, and men, simply visit https://twitter.com/harvardhoochies and let the amusement begin!

Hamburgers or hairy girls...that is the question...

While Harvard has record numbers of applications coming in year after year, its competitiveness is no match for numbers of McDonald’s managers vying to be trained in this prestigious program. In addition, there is NO tuition to attend Hamburger University, while tuition at Harvard has steeped to approximately $54,000. McDonald’s pays approximately $1,500 per person for them to partake in this intensive 5-day program.

Why are so many Chinese vying to learn the ways of Ronald McDonald? As of July 1, 2010, 26 percent of China’s 6.3 million college graduates were unemployed, and the fast-food giant offers the possibility of employment as well as opportunity to move up through the hierarchy of the system.

So ditch your psets, burn your books, and give away your winter coat–it’s about time we all head to China for a lesson off the Dollar Menu. How’s that for food for thought?

NOMNOMNOM food for thought NOMNOMNOM

For the ugly sweater party…

santa stuck in a tree!

For the Naughty Christmas Shindig…

oh la la!

And last, but not least…

too much milk and cookies?

HAPPY HOLIDAYS from THE VOICE!

Let this be a lesson to all – when carrying around your bottles of mercury (!?!?!), caution is everything.

From Noice to supposedly-safer-than-New-Haven Cambridge : WTF?

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Dear friends,

As many of you have known, I was mugged yesterday evening. Many thanks to those who called or emailed to express your concerns. I really appreciate it. Here’s a more detailed description of the incident. Hopefully this may help you rethink your definition of “safe time” and “safe place”.

I had dinner in Harvard Square by myself and bought some fruits and drinks from 7/11 on my way back to campus (I live in Chase). I have no idea since when I was stalked as there were still many people and cars on the JFK street at 8pm on Saturday. As I was walking along the path outside Hamilton and almost getting to the lawn in front of Baker Library [...], two men quietly approached me from behind and wrestled me down to the ground. As one of them pressed me to the ground and said “give me your money”, the other quickly found and grabbed my wallet from the back pocket of my jeans, and then both of them ran away via the path and then the JFK bridge to Cambridge side. It happened at around 8:20pm and the entire process lasted about 20 seconds. I reported the incident to HBS security located in Aldrich immediately afterwards and filed it with HUPD. My friend’s friend found my empty wallet at the Cambridge side of JFK bridge – all cash and cards were taken.

They didn’t threat me with any weapon or claim to have any. I didn’t get injured at all. I am completely fine, both physically and mentally. I received phone calls from Youngme Moon and Barbara Siegfriedt later, to whom I suggested the school consider installing some security cameras around the boundary of the campus.

Some key learnings:

• According to an HBS security officer, a number of similar incidents have happened recently in different schools of Harvard University. The officer suspected they were the same group of “desperate” robbers, because they tended to mug people in places where passengers may pass by from time to time and at as early as 7:30pm. So I recommend everyone always take extra caution once it’s dark, even if it doesn’t seem so late or you seem to be in a relatively safe area.
• If you walk back from Cambridge to campus in the evening, you may consider not to take the path outside Hamilton (facing the river), but the path between Hamilton and Morris/Gallatin (continue on N Harvard Street for a few meters and take the entrance facing the stadium).
• Having grocery shopping bags in your hands might also make you an easier target to hunt down.

The police said they believe they have a good chance to get the robbers as they become more “desperate”. Until then (or even after then), be careful!