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...does a class require you to count alligators? Do you have to dive for a frisbee while walking through the Yard? (On second thought, don't answer that.) Some might say Harvard intramurals should reflect the necessary competitive skills for Harvard life. We could easily have a library scavenger hunt, essay-draft basketball played in a suite with crumpled-up essay drafts, or my personal favorite, floppy disk fencing, where the last person whose disk retains its sliding disk guard in place wins. We definitely could--but we shouldn...
...light of the description above, I would like to present my "Hunter-Gatherer Theory" of Harvard classes. In talking classes, the students are hunters. The object of the class is to use one's ideas, words and oratory skills to hunt down and "kill" the ideas and words of others. There is a free-market competition of ideas at play in these classes which is directed and perpetuated by a kind of intellectually Darwinist atmosphere. Those equipped with the most extensive verbal weaponry, the thickest rebuttal armor, and the necessary obsession with intellectual combat are most likely to win. Aggressiveness...
Armchair Caesars have been spending the fall creating and crushing the virtual empires of this wonderful "artificial world" CD-ROM. The game--if that's the right word--puts players at the helm of a budding society, just crawling out of hunt-and-gather mode. Building your tribe into an empire proves to be a pretty addictive sensation, though it takes a mix of smart planning and tactical warfare to win the game. ($50; Spectrum Holobyte/Microprose...
Muppet Treasure Island This amusing scavenger hunt mixes live video with those memorably saccharine characters kids love. ($39.95; Activision...
When I get back to my room, adjusting to the fact that Clinton has been reelected is surprisingly nauseating. It's hard to pinpoint the source of my disgust; it's not his character or even his center-right approach that bugs me. The next day, I hunt down a transcript from one of the debates, and soon it's obvious. It's remarkable how quickly you forget Clinton's charisma when you see his words in writing...