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Harvard dorm shooting victim dies
Shooting in Harvard dorm
big words
"this terrible stigma" I bet the kid who said that also claimed to be humbled by his admission to Harvard.
Three different things:
1. Using terms from beyond a thousand-word vocabulary, for expressiveness.
2. Awareness and acknowledgment of privilege.
3. Using terms from beyond a thousand-word vocabulary, but in questionable ways.
Shoot for accuracy
His "expressiveness" made you completely misunderstand his point. That should humble you.
Would've been even better, had he said
"stigmata."
Legalize it
How often do Budweiser distributors get into gunfights with their competitors from Sam Adams and Harpoon? Do the sellers of Newport cigarettes fear the sellers of Winston or Lucky Strike?
Legalize, regulate, and tax marijuana, and make this violence go away.
Nah...
Makes too much sense, Ron. Never gonna happen.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
What do we have to do already?
Didn't we already de-criminalize marijuana possession in MA? WTF is it necessary to do to get a full channel decriminalized for local growing and selling?
Is any person or group working on that right now, that I could support?
MassCann?
You could try this, if you haven't already.
MassCann
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
University students using marijuana!
What is the world coming to!
I'm as alarmed as the Globe's unnamed Harvard housemaster!
I am shocked. Shocked, I
I am shocked. Shocked, I tell you!
As stated in the article.
The suspect is not a Harvard student. Repeat, not a Harvard student. Oh, and if it still matters, neither is the victim.
Harvard people are obsessed
Harvard people are obsessed with other Harvard people.
Ever try to force yourself through an entire edition of the Crimson. They feel the need to stop at every turn to mention who is a Harvard student and who is not. It gets a bit inane when they go into a list of politicians and business people involved in a project. Yeah, yeah we get it, lots of people important near Harvard went to Harvard and apparently they do not shoot each other.
That's pretty typical for college & uni papers
what with being particularly about the college/uni and the people in it, and all that.
get over the harvard thing. the kid's statement wasn't bad.
I wrote for the MIT student newspaper
and it was standard style to place a graduation year (or the letter 'G' for someone who went to graduate school there) after every first mention of anyone who ever went to the school. So if I'm ever in The Tech again, I'll be "Ron Newman '79". This is just what college newspapers do.
Ditto
At Brandeis. This isn't a Harvard affectation. It's a college thing.
I went to a school with a
I went to a school with a twice a month newspaper that focused mostly just on campus so I guess I did not notice that as much while I was in school. I just noticed it mostly due to the Crimson being updated regularly on the web.
But unless you go to Harvard, or work there
you aren't the primary audience for these articles. They are written for students (and to some extent, faculty and staff) to read. These readers are naturally most interested in whether people involved in a crime on their campus have any affiliation with the school.
I dont know, the Crimson
I dont know, the Crimson shows up quite a bit. I dont work in the Harvard megaverse and I see it on a semiregular basis.
I'm not sure what you mean by "shows up"
If you mean that people link to it a lot, that just means that people find Harvard news interesting.
The Web has given many college newspapers much larger readerships than they used to have (or even really intend to have).
Blood for pot
But the buyers were. They just cleverly outsourced the risk.
Ripped from the headlines
There was an episode of Law and Order (the good original show!) in 1992 about this exact thing happening, except it was Yale. Minority Youth murdered in ivy-league drug conspiracy.