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There is a distinctly unfriendly side to Harvard. You feel it when after meeting many new faces during our orientation week, we promptly stop saying "hi" to the others we met once we figure out which is our crowd. It comes out in the way we meet people at parties at night, and then when we see them the next day, we don't even address them. It comes out when we can have lunch with somebody and then a few hours later pass right by them on the street without even nodding...
There is a good chance that henceforth, the two will probably pass in silence. In their next situation, perhaps John and Marc will recognize each other as they pass by, but both will wonder why the other doesn't say anything, and both will be afraid to say "hi" to the other. Though each will preserve some pride, through the lack of interaction, nobody wins...
Some spectators are of the serious sort,offering hi-fives, oranges and Gatorade to tiredrunners...
...Write a letter to someone to thank them, to tell them how much you value their friendship or to just say "Hi...
...Hi, I am your new ombudsperson, or reader representative. "Ombudsperson" is one of those spanking new additions to the dictionary, teetering on the borderline of officially recognized English. The first appearance of an ombudsperson on an American newspaper was in 1967 on the Louisville Courier-Journal. The Crimson followed three decades later, appointing Rajath Shourie '95 the first reader representative on Feb. 2, 1994. An executive editor of The Crimson, Shourie was an established "insider," and his official job description "charged [him] with investigating reader concerns" and by implicit extension, providing justifications or excuses for Crimson policy...