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Several Harvard University librarians have told the Bostonist's own Fangela Fangula that some institutions' students have been known to protest late fees and the like by proclaiming, "BUT DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?" In response to such words, some of these professional bibliophiles have confessed that they occasionally mutter, "I dunno. Are you Jesus?" in quiet exasperation. more ›

--A few days old, but still exciting--the MBTA says it will improve the lighting at the JFK/UMass stop. [Boston Globe] more ›

The Harvard Crimson ran a short story in Friday's edition of the paper on the Harvard Radcliffe Science Fiction Association's (HRSFA) performance of an abridged "Julius Cesar." The students performed on the steps of Memorial Hall and employed bed sheet togas and umbrellas as costumes. The Crimson reports that turnout was low, but the student group considered it a success. "Rachel S. Storch ’10, who played Cassius and Plebian Number One, said that the event was intended partly as an opportunity for club members to release aggression, but mostly to just 'confuse the tourists.' " Nerdy flash mob? Could be. But as the warning of the Ides of March were being played out by the HRSFA players just across Harvard Yard (in what looks like Lamont Library) a rogue group of players were invading a reading room and giving the sixty-second version of Cesar's assassination. And, for the gorilla warning of the Ides of March we've got video. more ›

The rumor mill is working overtime about Harvard's next president. And it doesn't look like the Lampoon is behind the latest rumors, although it would be pretty entertaining if it were. more ›

Harvard students were producing yet another season of Ivory Tower. The good folks at IvyGate just reminded us that season 4 of the all new Ivory Tower is well under way. The Harvard College soap opera describes themselves as a show "Completely acted, directed, written, and produced by Harvard undergraduates, Ivory Tower is Harvard’s very own soap opera. Both parodying and revealing the world of Ivy League sex, lies and privilege, college has never been this much fun! Ivory Tower provides the only campus opportunity for professionally-minded students to start producing fiction television today." After the 90's version was retired from Harvard-Radcliffe Television the show hit a hiatus until broadband brought it back. Now you can catch all the latest action from the other side of the river via YouTube. Episode 1 of season 4 hit the net in November, just last week Episode 2 was granted upload status. While students are spending their precious moments creating quality internet episodes the members of the presidential search committee are hard at work. They're still looking for that replacement for the departed Larry Summers. The Crimson recently shortened their list to four candidates; today they're saying "members have expressed enthusiasm" about two of the four. Sounds steamy – stay tuned an announcement is due in early February. In the mean time feel free to catch up on your favorite soap you keep forgetting to TiVo. more ›

The Harvard Crimson is mired in the controversies of copycat cartoonists, quote cribbing, and an editor who would like to hide in a spiderhole. It's not a good sign for the future of journalism when the editor of an Ivy League paper takes damage-control tips from Saddam Hussein. You'd think the Harvard kids would have learned their lesson after Kaavya Viswanathan's legendary fall from grace. But, in the past few weeks, plagiarism fever has... more ›

The Crimson announced back in December that Harvard was allowing Google access to its famed libraries to make digital copies of 40,000 books for the Google Print Project. Although Google planned to digitize mostly public domain works, it also said it planned to digitize some copyrighted materials and release snippets on the web. The thought of Google even scanning the books has many publishing groups fired up, and angry e-mails are flying. Google isssued... more ›

Bostonist might be wrong to think that Harvard University President Lawrence Summers may have heard it before. Maybe he just read it. Outrage from feminists, scholars, faculty, students and staff…not to mention the general public…has been directed at Larry Summers for about a month, since his comments. Summers has held his ground and has not retracted the statements he made. He has apologized if they were misconstrued. Though Summers gained much attention for the discontent for his remarks it is only fair to say that some people do back him. The Crimson gives a full report of the faculty meeting held yesterday where 250 faculty members laid into their president, ten waxing critical in statements followed by applause. From the way the meeting was described Summers must have popped a valium before the meeting. Bostonist wonders what kind of scotch they stock in the Harvard Presidential Liquor Cabinet. With a ‘widening crisis of confidence’ we’re sure that he took a couple belts of the top shelf after that meeting. With an emergency faculty meeting to be held next week perhaps Harvard will soon be in the midst of a presidential search. BU, you got any tips? more ›