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...full year before Harvard students abandoned their own use of the stolen magenta color in favor of crimson. Though Harvard’s crimson still bears a striking resemblance to Fordham’s maroon, the switch marked an honest start to self-identity.While I enjoy setting the record straight because it provides me the opportunity to knock the high self-importance of Harvard students, the story of each school’s quest to strike out on its own and find its true colors reminds me of my own quest to turn from the familiar in favor of the uncharted...
...grown to 300. “It became one of the largest groups on campus,” he says.The year saw Harvard’s second annual Gay and Lesbian Awareness Day, contributing to an increasing awareness of gay issues among the straight population.But minorities, says Robert O. Boorstin ’81, who was president of The Crimson in 1980, “were powerful out of all proportion to their numbers.”Recalling Schatz’s incredible prominence on campus, he says, “It was not an easy time...
...Carlton Cuse ’81 wishes he were as cool as the smooth-talking, straight-shooting character Sawyer on the ABC hit TV show “Lost.”Then again, he did help create the character.“He’s as cool as I wish I was,” Cuse jokes.As the co-executive producer of the popular show, Cuse is one of a handful of people who know the well-kept secrets behind the mysterious island on which the show is set. The former Harvard varsity rower has been involved with...
...that had attempted three extra points and six field goals—missing one of each—in addition to five punts, could not send the seventh field goal attempt 42 yards through the uprights. On the Crimson’s ensuing possession, Schindel sent his 29-yarder straight and true to complete the comeback and send his teammates pouring onto the field.“It’s tough to beat this feeling,” a beaming Schindel said after the game.“That was a huge, huge game for us and gave...
...mental landscape.Fellow science-fiction writer and close friend Susanna J. Sturgis says, “Melissa manages to pull together an array of strong influences, some of them apparently contradictory, like military history, theater, costuming, music, not to mention being an Arkansan in New England, a lesbian in a straight world, a science-fiction writer in the gay and lesbian world.”Scott says she draws inspiration for her books from “pretty much anywhere and anything.” Anne Fausto-Sterling’s essay “The Five Sexes: Why Male...