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Campus newspaper reassures Harvard students Bostonians won't hate them if they stick around after they graduate
By adamg on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 7:32am
The Crimson writes that City Council President Michelle Wu and Walsh Chief of Staff Daniel Koh - both Harvard '07 - disprove the "negative stereotypes off campus." Still, Koh adds, Harvard grads have to work to dispel the stereotypes, the exact nature of which the Crimson does not specify, except that it involves "dropping the H-bomb:"
Harvard students must be aware of these stereotypes and try to counter them with open-mindedness in the workplace.
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LOL
We don't want to be stereotyped as elitist, so we write an article about how folks don't really think we're elitist.
No really...this just happened.
adam and anon and half of all the other commenters - tl;dr?
Doesn't seem like adam or quite a number of people commenting here really read the article. It wasn't an April Fools joke and it wasn't about Boston in particular - the (local student) reporter just reached out to local Harvard grads working in local govt for their perspective on whether it they experienced workplace pushback because of their H credentials - and they said, no, not really. No handwringing or wah-wah-ing to speak of.
(FWIW, I went to the quaint technical school downriver and usually spare little love for 'Crimson Community College', but this 'these H-grads get more satisfaction working for the public than for their pocketbook' message hardly seems elitist or objectionable).
Please stay!!
We need more Ivy League grads in our great city!!!
NYC seems to be taking all them. We need to step up our game.
- The Original SoBo Yuppie
Out of reach Public Records, Records Management at City Council
Boston City Council President M. Wu keeps out of reach Council Public Bid Documents for Council Stenographic Services. Councilor Wu keeps out of reach the Stenographic Record of Public Meetings from hard of hearing folks, the Deaf Community, ESL English as a Second Language folks.
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Interlopahs
>gag<....wreeeeetch....
It must be so hard dealing with the stigma...hopefully they find a safe-space to process the trauma and the burden they must carry.
Face it. Until Matt Demon and Ben Aflac make a movie about the Harvard grad who makes it big with a sustainably harvested and socially conscious apple sauce line for sale at Whole Foods, they'll just have to live with this disadvantage imposed upon them by society.
...wait...
....posted on the Crimson 7 hours ago....that means today.....today is.....April 1st.
Please tell me that I've been had.
Are you trying to start a war?
If you're right I fully expect to see something like these saving a space by the curb.
Diane Keaton already did that plot.
" Baby Boom"
H-bomb
srsly?
LOLZ
Even on April Fool's Day, the filthy plebes can't process our superior little joke.
Sincerely,
A Harvard VFIP
BU grad...
I'm lucky I can maintain bladder control and type at the same time....damn...'scuse me while I change....
While I agree some Harvard
While I agree some Harvard grads deserve the elitist rich guy reputation (Romney, Baker and Trump come to mind), the general anti education feel on boards like this I find really ridiculous. Why is it so bad some people go to college, and that some of those people would choose to go to one of the best colleges, that gives people who are able to get in and graduate, better job options? It seems like the American dream, but conseratives in this area have this crazy view that people who go to college are useless and "real americans" are the locals who grew up here and got a job in government (police, fire, whatever) or construction, and everyone else (the ones who you know, pay for those peoples salaries) are to be looked down upon. Harvard and other local college grads are responsible for many of the jobs created here.
Harvard can't claim Trump.
He went to UPenn (Wharton).
All theory, no application
While your comment sounds good in
The abstract but you obviously don't have any experience with the blue bloods. Reminds me of last when everyone mocked the idea of a duke v Yale game. How unfair to stereotype people and get it right.
A "townie" is a guy from Charlestown
This local doesn't have any big problem with people from Harvard. The guy from Harvard is the one who fixes grandma's hip.
An upper-case Townie is from
An upper-case Townie is from "the Town" aka Charlestown.
Lower-case townie is a generic term long used all across the country and in several others besides - including locales which, it may astound you to know, do not have a nearby Charlestown and have no idea why they should care about the one in a state or nation many thousands of miles away.
Get. Over. It.
doth protest too much
"Lower-case townie is a generic term long used all across the country and in several others"- Really? Do tell... Is townie used in a positive manner like how people from Dorchester like to be called Dot Rats, or in a derogatory manner?
lol some really sensitive tunts
townie isn't remotely a charlestown specific phrase.
the literal only people that care about who is a "Townie" are the people from c-town. and the number of people outside of c-town who care about those people are, i assume, very close to 0.
everywhere else in the world, including the rest of MA, the word is used to define somebody that is local, and whose family is likely local and has been for awhile.
btw, i have used the derogatory form of 'townie' in the subject for you. and the words meaning changes based on context like many.
i love it when grundle-tier shitsuckers from charlestown whine about cultural appropriation of a language they can barely speak though
you people are like Greta.
garbo
A Confession
I have considerable self esteem issues. When Harvard puts out a joke on April Fools day it actually triggers my deep seated inferiority complex. If I suspect that there may be layers of irony that I'm unable to perceive it makes me aggressive.
Because I am a scrublord plebmongrel I will, on occasion, vehemently lash out against those that I view as superior in both intellect and ability to contribute to society. One favored tactic of mine is the preemptive strike. If I have a coworker that wears a tie that too closely resembles crimson, for example- I will find ways to casually denigrate the university. Just in case.
My hope with such preemptive strikes is to instill fear and strip away confidence from the potential Harvard grad. If they suspect their ilk are unwanted, perhaps they won't mention where they've obtained their diploma- thus confirming my fear. If I possess any manner of luck at all, they'll find the environment so toxic they'll take their talents elsewhere.
I find graduates of Brown and Yale to be less intimidating, not solely due to the lesser prestige with which I view their schools, but primarily because of the regional rivalry I harbor. Rhode Island and Connecticut are already deserving of disdain, producing lesser individuals- ensuring my stature is safe around their alumni. With Harvard I have no such geographical justification for prejudice. It is insidious. A cancer of my own commonwealth's creation.
Therein lies one of the unheralded and discomposing facets of my relationship with the university. Not only does it figure into my fears of self betrayal-my inability to attend- but I feel it is a treason committed towards me by my very home.
Harvard is a cancer. Maybe the cancer. I consider my aggression towards the university and its graduates to be incumbent upon me. The malignancy must be cut out...and I...I am the scalpel.
Thank you deeply from the
Thank you deeply from the depths of my shriveled black heart for scrublord plebmongrel
Many years back, when random
Many years back, when random strangers at bus stations would strike up conversation and ask where I went to school, I would say that I went to school "in Boston." That is, until I realized that it's actually a form of cunty H-speak.
If you're thinking about making bus station jokes in response--check your privilege, white devils.