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Arrested Professor: This Is What Happens to Blacks in America
Harvard faculty, students, and the surrounding community are mulling over a disturbing incident that went down last week. Last Thursday, prominent African-American scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was arrested in his home after a woman saw him trying to unlock his jammed door and assumed he was a robber. Gates was arrested for disorderly conduct.
Immigrant Takes Unimproved SAT, Gets into All Ivy Leagues
Lukasz Zbylut, who came to America only five years ago with a limited understanding of English, has secured admission to all seven of the country's Ivy League schools. The Polish immigrant chose to accept admission to Harvard, where he plans to study politics, law, and philosophy. Of the 21 schools Lukasz applied to, only MIT rejected him.
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Front Page: HPV Vaccine Reminds Girls of Sexual Risks
- A new study shows that the HPV vaccine reminds girls of risks associated with sex, such as contracting STDs, instead of giving them a license to be promiscuous as some people feared. — Salon
- Wal-Mart is now selling affordable coffins. — BBC News
- A Dutch court has told 14-year-old Laura Dekker that she is too inexperienced to sail around the world by herself, and she will be placed under the guardianship of child protection authorities until next year.
Some Overweight People Are Calling For a Law to Protect Them
Overt racism is not tolerated in most places, but fatism is flourishing in our society. Many overweight people say that the normal rules of decency and common courtesy don't seem to apply to them, and they're trying to organize a new rights movement.
In a news article yesterday, the BBC recounted the plight of an overweight train passenger who was beaten up by another commuter for taking up two seats.
Say What? Harvard Professor on Henry Louis Gates's Arrest
"Ain't nothing post-racial about the United States of America."
— Lawrence Bobo, Harvard professor and colleague of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on Gates's arrest last week. The acclaimed Harvard scholar, author, historian and PBS documentarian was arrested trying to unjam the front door to his house after police were called by a neighbor who thought someone was breaking into the home.
All You Need Is Love? Study Finds What Makes Us Happy
We can be so caught up in the day-to-day commotion of our lives that it's rare we get a chance to step back and look at life as a whole. But psychiatrist George Vaillant has been doing that every day for the last 42 years as head of the Harvard Study of Adult Development.
The study began in 1937 by following 268 Harvard male undergrads, who were deemed "well-adjusted" by the day's standards.
Lighten Up: Barack Fought Vampires at Harvard?
If you thought Obama girl was frightening, just wait for Barackula — a short political horror rock musical about young Barack Obama having to stave off a secret society of vampires at Harvard when he was inducted as President of the Harvard Law Review in 1990.
Um, ok. Check out the Barackula MySpace page for music and pictures from the bizarre production.
Front Page: Obama Set to Deliver Big Gay Rights Speech
- After appointing the country's third openly gay US ambassador, Obama plans to deliver a "big gay rights speech" on Saturday. — Huffington Post
- Romanian-born German Herta Müller has won the Nobel Prize for literature for her novels, poems, and stories depicting repression in Romania. — New York Times
- Harvard has been ranked the world's top school.
Food Really Is the Way to a Person's Heart
A new book, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, argues that hot food, and not sex, is the reason human beings originally paired up in domestic relationships.
According to author and Harvard anthropologist Richard Wrangham, early marriages were really a trade off for hot food (prepared by the women) and protection (provided by the men). Evidence from primitive societies, including the fact that society tolerated women sleeping around but ostracized them if they ever cooked for men besides their husbands, is used to support the conclusion.
Stranger Than Fiction: Gates and Crowley Related!
Tonight when Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sgt. James Crowley sit down over a beer with President Obama, they can avoid talking about that awkward thing that happened last week. Instead, the Harvard professor and his arresting officer can discuss how they're related!
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