Harvard University

Experience 

DIG THIS: HARVARD ARTS FIRST FESTIVAL @ HARVARD

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With nearly 230 presentations including plays, films, and musical and dance performances, there’s sure to be something that catches your eye. Continue reading

Think 

BEAN COUNTER: VOLUME 14, ISSUE 36

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Still, this is earth-shattering enough to repeat: Harvard is investigating students who “might” have cheated on a take home exam. Continue reading

Taste 

FOTOBOM: TASTE OF ALLSTON

The Taste of Allston festival on Saturday gave all those in attendance a…taste of Allston. 

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Experience 

SHUTTERSTORY: SLOW DANCING IN HARVARD YARD

When you look up at the colorful dancers moving in slow-motion, projected on video screens high on the walls of Widener Library in Harvard Yard, you stop and watch. This is David Michalek’s “Slow Dancing.”

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Experience 

52 GAMES: HARVARD IN THE NCAA TOURNAMENT

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I watch Harvard’s first-round game against Vanderbilt Thursday at John Harvard’s Brew House in Harvard Square. The only way this could get Harvard-ier is if Jeremy Lin and Ryan Fitzpatrick show up and start making out. Continue reading

Experience 

52 GAMES: 60TH ANNUAL BEANPOT, FIRST ROUND

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The Beanpot is a venerated college ice hockey tournament that’s been around since just before Dwight Eisenhower became President. The Harvard Smartypants, Northeastern Commuters, Boston College Gentiles and Boston University Hipsters battle for bragging rights in possibly the best college hockey city there is. And the fans battle each other nearly as hard. Continue reading

Experience 

JANET ECHELMAN: A NEW KIND OF NETWORK

It started out rather modestly– piles of netting decorating an Indian seashore. An age-old material for an age-old trade. But what became of it was something grandiose, something that invades environments with delicacy and grace, tilting chins upwards in wonder.

“It’s not that I set out to create sculptures that moved in the wind,” artist Janet Echelman said last night to a stuffed amphitheatre at Northeastern University. “It’s that I discovered it.”

Known for her public net installations, Echelman addressed finding new mediums, transforming environments and fitting 1.5 million hand-tied knots into checked baggage. Continue reading