Word: oktoberfest
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...simply that the tacit assumption, in the classroom as well as outside it, is that everyone is liberal. Why is this? Perhaps because Harvard is located in the People’s Republic of Cambridge in the heart of blue Massachusetts: the sort of community whose Oktoberfest parade features a Communist marching band and an elaborate float of pigs strapped to lipstick rockets. But the Harvard student body comes from all over—even from red states. More than 25 percent of the class of 2012 hails from the traditionally more conservative Midwest and South. In fact, Harvard?...
Student volunteers from Lesley, MIT, and Harvard have managed registration tables for the Cambridge Election Commission throughout the city in recent weeks. The Commission signed up over 400 people at Oktoberfest this weekend alone, according to volunteer Nick A. John...
Twenty-five students from the Institute of Politics and representatives from three other student groups visited Roxbury and Dorchester on Saturday to register voters in underrepresented neighborhoods. At their final campaign at Oktoberfest on Sunday, the IOP wrapped up a month-long voter registration drive with the Cambridge Election Committee. The IOP’s last efforts, assisted by the Philips Brooks House Association, the Black Men’s Forum, and Students Taking on Poverty, come before this week’s voter registration deadline in Massachusetts. The students registered hundreds of voters over the weekend...
...people who descended on Harvard Square this Sunday for the 29th annual celebration of Oktoberfest were greeted by a strange sight: 300 feet of red pleather. That attraction—the world’s longest couch, which was featured on Church Street—was just one of the many draws at Cambridge’s most recent rendition of the 200 year-old Bavarian tradition. But while the Cambridge organizers imported the name from Munich’s storied event, they didn’t necessarily import the spirit: unlike Bavaria’s legions of inebriated revelers...
Thankfully, Harvard’s Queen’s Head Pub is making small steps in the right direction, having hosted Beer School and Oktoberfest in the past two weeks. Still, there is much more work to be done—far from abandoning its focus on beer, the Pub needs to redouble its energies and rid itself of its last bad beers and “malternatives...