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the voicewww.theHvoice.comISSUE 13 nov 20th, 2008

YALE ON ALCOHOL POLICY:Even with a fun czar, Harvard can’t have fun

THROW YALE DOWN THE WELL

On my campusthere is problem,and that problem is...Yale.+ interviews with players, map of the stadium & tailgate area

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“We feel the pressure to get the job done!”

SENIOR PLAYERS ON OUR TEAM:

Stadium map on

the back cover!

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NEVERMIND THE PROBLEM SETS...

yourweeklyagenda

The Divine Art Spectacle

showsfestivalscultureconcertspartieslecturessports

between, after or during class.

Female Iraq Warveterans8pm at The Women’s CenterThe PBS documentary gives examines the Iraq War through the eyes of women who are the first generation of female veterans. See this unique perspective, and attend the discussion that fol-lows.

Monday November

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Smooth jazz with gin & tonic

8pm at Sanders TheaterRadcliffe Pitches and Harvard Din & Tonics Bring back the 40s with some smooth jazz and wind down with a nice gin and tonic. It’s a nice way to slow down in the early evening after H-Y and just before a party later on. Don’t forget to make this pit stop before partying the night away.

The year has brought many fire scares to cam-pus. First there was the Adams and Harvard Yard fiasco, where all the freshmen had to evacuate to the Science Cen-ter. There was a sec-ond alarm (a drill) and a third alarm in Adams just this week. And there ap-parently was a fire alarm in Eliot this past weekend as well. When fire trucks pulled up and residents evacuated, the resident

dean appeared calm with the rest of the students outside, according to sophomore Diana Mich-ta. However, according

to house master Lino Pertile,

“the alarm c a m e from the H o u s e offices, w h i c h w e r e

empty at the time”

and when the firement

“inspected the of-fices, there was no indi-cation of any fire. The firemen call the alarm off a few minutes later.”

Appearances of mislead-ing alarms like these may be off-putting—though, true, faulty wir-ing did cause the move in weekend fiasco—these incidences should not be the cause of massive panic across all dorms on campus during stormy weather. Just be pre-pared with an umbrella or raincoat should a false alarm strike again and never disregard an alarm because it is sus-pected to be fake.

What’s up with all the fire alarms this year?

The alarm came

from the House offices, where were empty at

the time

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Brian ShenCampus Buzz Editor

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Saturday November

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The Divine Art Spectacle

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12:30PM at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 280 The Fenway This special night examines the work by Dante that inspired Isabella Gardner to start collecting works in the first place. Experimental Violinist Emil Altschuler plays. Art connoisseurs can explore the art of marriage with Viewfinder talks and discussions about Gardner’s own portrait. Artists can also draw in the cloisters themselves. Food connoisseurs also can indulge in cocktails, including the new signature Madame Gautreau, and other edibles at the Gardner Café. Tickets $12.

Points of DepartureFriday-Sunday8pm at the New College TheaterGraceful limbs gliding across the stage. Only images of the graceful Billy Elliot duo come to mind. But, this could only be better. Masterworks per-formed by the Harvard Ballet Company are this weekend. Support our own dancers as a calming rest before this packed weekend.

Monday, November

24th

Faculty dinner5pm at AnnenburgFirst Years, it’s your chance to get to know your professors! Just make sure you aren’t too hung over to have an intelligent con-versation. Don’t be afraid, though, they don’t expect you to have something bril-liantly original to say, they do expect you to be coherent enough to be yourself. So don’t party that hard this weekend.

Thursday November

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Thud FloodFriday8pm at Lowell Lecture HallIt’s time to get pumped with the thuds of the Harvard Un-dergraduate Drummers, who basically bring their own pep rally for the weekend’s big game. Feel the thundering beat to get yourself ready for H-Y.

Saturday November

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campus buzz4 between, after or during class.

If I could use one word to describe the mood of the audience during almost every scene of the Colonial Theatre’s production of Spamalot, it would be “an-ticipatory.” It became obvi-ous when Ben Whiteley’s orchestra began playing the music complete with gunshots, flailing horns, and perhaps a dying cat? That this energized audi-ence was already over-the-moon for Monty Python and the Holy Grail; the only question was, could the Colonial Theatre cast push it further past expec-tations? The answer is a resounding yes.

Idle’s script is rife with meta-jokes, irony, and jarring anachronisms. It could be very easy to play “at” a character or point too eagerly at a joke in an-ticipation of a laugh—but this cast stays true to the absurdist spirit of Monty Python in story, character, and form without any ex-ception. Jonathan Hadary stars as the deliciously dry King Arthur, who deserves com-mendation for re-ligiously main-taining stiff regal bones and all whilst kick-ing his legs in the air during any of the musical’s show-stopping num-bers. Brad Bradley is understated but true in his portrayal of Patsy, the King’s trusted companion. Let’s not forget James Bea-man smoothly skirts from his characterization of ‘Sir Robin, the small and cowardly’ to ‘Sir Robin, the surprisingly confident soloist’ in perhaps the

biggest musical crowd-pleaser of the night, “You Won’t Succeed on Broad-way.” And, The Lady of the Lake, Esther Stilwell, a woman whose broad range and vocal ability de-mands praise from classi-cal singers and Broadway belters alike, managed to take a role that can at times be overblown and

give it a more likeable and

laughable, a l b e i t diva-ish, f a c e . H o w -ever, the award of

the eve-ning goes

to Matthew Greer, who flaunt-

ed his versatility as Sir Lancelot, The French

Taunter, Knight of Ni, and Tim the Enchanter with the ease of a highly-skilled magician (his turn as The French Taunter al-most incapacitated the au-dience for thirty minutes, it was so side-splittingly

hilarious.)

The show was packed with goodies for its Bos-ton fans as well, including a well-received shout-out to Diane Wilkerson, for-mer Massachusetts sena-tor and Boston resident. It also featured jokes ref-erencing current events more generally —a Pres-ident-elect joke comes to mind —but that, despite their awkwardness, were executed well. At times the production does veer into too much : campy silliness and overcrowd-ed confusion on a small stage—but these moments are rare, and certainly honest interpretations of Idle’s over-the-top script. The cast never loses track of the play’s trajectory, however, and energeti-cally brings it to its rol-licking end.

Spamalot at the Colonial Theatre had its hysteri-cal moments, and wheth-er or not you’ve seen Mon-ty Python and the Holy

Grail, you’ll be as excited as any Monty Python vet-eran to see it on stage.

Lovingly ripped off from Monty Python and the Holy Grail

SPAMALOT: THE MUSICAL A show full of irony, meta-jokes, anachronisms, flailing horns and a dying cat

The production does veer into over-the-top siliness, but it’s quite rare

The show was

packed with goodies for Boston fans

BY BRITTANY TURNER

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throw yale down the well

THE GAME.

SPECIAL COVERAGE

HARVARD: “We’ll get the job done!”

INSIDE: info on alcohol, interviews with players, sta-dium area map >

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This weekend Harvard and Yale foot-ball teams will meet for the 125th time to fight for victory amidst the enthusiastic support of professors, students, and alumni from both sides. The tradition be-gan November 13th, 1885, on Yale’s turf, when Har-vard soundly defeated the home team. A short hiatus oc-curred during 1895-6 due to several seri-ous injuries incurred dur-ing the 1894 game, and ad-ditional breaks were taken dur-ing the First and Second World War, but aside from these times The Game has taken place as an annual event.The Game attracts thou-

sands of spectators, pri-marily students, alumni, and professors. Accord-ing to Austin McLeod (’09), “It’s the one time a year when the whole student body is aware we have a football team. Pro-fessors are talking about it, and students who nev-er go to games find a way to get to the stadium be-

cause they know this is a big

deal.” This increased e n t h u -s i a s m helps to maintain the impor-

tance of this rivalry above

other games dur-ing the season, and at-

tracts the thousands of people who flood the Har-vard and Yale stadiums on alternating years. This year in

particular the game has particular significance because Harvard is play-ing for the Ivy League Championship title. Hav-ing defeated Penn in a close victory last week, the team has a chance to win the championship if they beat Yale again in this game. The seniors in particular feel the pres-sure to “get the job done”, as Jason Miller (’09) ex-plained. “We’re prepar-ing the same way we do for other games, going to practice every day and watching videos of the other teams play” said Glenn Doris (’09), “but for this week everything is so much more intense and we are prioritizing football because we know that we have the possibil-ity of bringing home the Ivy League Champion-ship”. Miller articu-

lated the sentiments of many other seniors on the team who describe the importance of this game as represen-tative of a the culmi-nation of over a decade of competitive football playing and a transition into a much more relaxed, spectator po-sition. “I’m looking for-ward to spending the rest of my Sundays watching football, rather than af-ternoon practice” says Jason, whose love for football will not subside after his competitive ca-reer is over. There is a sig-nificant amount of mo-mentum leading up to the game as the student body prepares for it in

their own individual ways. Whether this

manifests itself in the form of

selling Har-v a r d - Ya l e T - s h i r t s in front of the Science Center to

the Football team’s serious

focus on mental and physical prepara-

tion for the Game. Re-membering the painful defeat of 2006, the foot-ball team acknowledged that they were ill-pre-pared for that game, and has vowed to not allow such ill-preparation to occur again. McLeod ex-plained how “this is the last time to do what I love in front of thousands of people, and show them a glimpse of what has been a huge part of my life for the past 15 years”.

TIMELINE 1875

Some highlights from the history of The Game

1894The first meeting between the teams occurred on November 13, 1875 at Hamilton Field in New Haven. Harvard won 4-0 by scoring four touchdowns and four field goals (at the time, a touchdown merely gave the scoring team the opportunity to gain one point by converting the field goal).

The rules that governed the early years of The Game were a modi-fied version of the rules of rugby and made the game particularly brutal. After The Game of 1894, about which newspapers report-ed seven players carried off the field “in dying condition,” the two schools broke off all official contact including athletic com-petition for two years.

1908Before the 1908 Game, Har-vard coach Percy Haughton allegedly strangled a bull-dog to death in the locker room to motivate his players. Whether this is true or not, Harvard did win 4-0.

KICK-OFF: NOVEMBER 22ND, NOON. THE GAME, 125TH MEETING

“WE CAN BRING THE IVY CHAMPIONSHIP HOME!”

“It’s the one

time of the year people know we have a football

team.”

“This is the last

time to do what I love in front of

thousands of people.”

Voice reporter Kayla Feld talks to the players on the football team to get a behind-the-scenes look at their preparations for the game on Saturday

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For the first time since 1968, the final weekend of the Ivy League season pitted two teams that were undefeated in the league, and for the first time in many years, the refurbished Yale Bowl sold out all of its 61,446 seats. Harvard killed Yale, 37-6.

KICK-OFF: NOVEMBER 22ND, NOON. THE GAME, 125TH MEETING

“WE CAN BRING THE IVY CHAMPIONSHIP HOME!”

“We’re preparing the same way we do for other games, going to practice every day and watching videos of the other team.”

20041968In 2004, some Yale students impersonated the (non-ex-istent) Harvard pep squad, handed out placards to some 1,800 adult Harvard fans, and alleged that by holding up the placards they would be spelling out “GO HARVARD.” Instead, the signs spelled out “WE SUCK”.Harvard won the game 35-3.

The best Game ever. In 1968, the Harvard team made a mi-raculous last-moment come-back, scoring 16 points in the final 42 seconds to tie a highly touted Yale squad. The dramatic comeback inspired the Crimson to print one of its most fmaous headline s ever “Harvard Beats Yale, 29-29”.

Before the 1916 Game, Yale coach T.A.D. Jones inspired his players to victory (6-3) when he unequivocally as-serted, “Gentlemen, you are now going to play football against Harvard. Never again in your whole life will you do anything so important.” Un-fortunately, it was success-ful.

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IMPORTANT STUFF ON DRINKINGBeer kegs and items that pro-mote the rapid consumption of alcohol are not permitted at any University athletic function or event. No individ-ual or group may transport a keg to a University athletic event. Vehicles and/or fans carrying amounts of alcohol above State Law will NOT be allowed within the complex. Unruly or visibly intoxicated behavior will be grounds for removal. Tailgating is lim-ited to two hours before and two hours after each football game.Ticket holders will be asked to move into the game at kickoff. Non-ticket hold-ers will be asked to leave the premises.

Ten Thousand Men Of HarvardA. Putnam ‘18

Ten thousand men of Harvard want vict’ry today,For they know that o’er old EliFair Harvard holds sway.So then we’ll conquer old Eli’s men,And when the game ends, we’ll sing again:Ten thousand men of Harvard gained vict’ry today!

FIGHT SONGS

HarvardianaR.G. Williams ‘11 and S.B. Steel ‘11 With Crimson in triumph flashing‘Mid the strains of victory,Poor Eli’s hopes we are dashingInto blue obscurity.Resistless our team sweeps goalwardWith the fury of the blast;We’ll fight for the name of Harvard‘Til the last white line is passed.Harvard! Harvard! Harvard!

Brunch drinks to survive the day

Ceasar (aka Canadian Bloody Mary)• 11/2oz.(non-alcoholic)Vodka• 6oz.ClamatoJuice(Mott’s)• 1stickCelery• 1dashCelerySalt• 1wedgeLime• 1dashPepper,black• 2splashesTabascoSauce• 2splashesWorcestershireSauce

Peppermint Hot Chocolate:• 1packetofhotcocoa• Dashof(non-alcoholic)peppermintschnapps• Mugofhotwater

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YALE: Harvard can’t have fun

As reported by the Voice 3 weeks ago, The Yale Her-ald has been mocking our university for this year’s alcohol policy. Here’s what they had to say:

“For The Game this year, Harvard has decided to take a, well, typically Harvardian approach when it comes to tail-gating. In an effort to

curtail the abundance of inebriated students at every possible point dur-ing The Game, Harvard has implemented a ban on alcohol as well as U-hauls from the student tailgate area. Not only will this make it harder for Yale groups to set up their drinking stations at Harvard, but with tail-gating now ending right

at the start of the game, there seems to be no time at all for imbibing your ice-cold Natty Lite. This has forced many Yalies to scrap their tailgat-ing plans. Too bad that even in a place with a “fun czar,” tolerance forinebriation seems to de-crease yearly.”

Stadium map

How Yalies are preparing for the visit

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NovemberMakeoverName: Joyce Zhang

Year: 2009House: Leverett

Meet Joyce. An accom-plished senior on campus, Joyce normally considers spending time on hair & make-up low on her priority list. But, like most girls, she enjoys the occasional treat of a fabulous makeover.

BEFORE

AFTER

At Carriage House Spa & Salon, stylist Jean Pierre consulted with Joyce about her hair texture, last cut, and typical beauty routine before starting to shape a trendy, shorter style.

“My daily routine is probably going to stay the same, but I really like my new haircut and I’m very happy with how ev-erything turned out! --Joyce

Owner and professional aestheti-cian Christine Williamson used neutral-colored Body Shop and Origins make-up to give Joyce a natural look. She included a sage-green eyeshadow and nude-brown lip gloss in her make-up application

Submit a fashion disaster photo of you or a friend, and enter a drawing to win a $50 gift certificate to Car-riage House Spa & Salon! Good for

a Mani/Pedi package, a haircut, a half-hour massage, and much more!

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spotted......in LamontMakeover

At Carriage House Spa & Salon, stylist Jean Pierre consulted with Joyce about her hair texture, last cut, and typical beauty routine before starting to shape a trendy, shorter style.

Owner and professional aestheti-cian Christine Williamson used neutral-colored Body Shop and Origins make-up to give Joyce a natural look. She included a sage-green eyeshadow and nude-brown lip gloss in her make-up application

Submit a fashion disaster photo of you or a friend, and enter a drawing to win a $50 gift certificate to Car-riage House Spa & Salon! Good for

a Mani/Pedi package, a haircut, a half-hour massage, and much more!

Olivia GoodwillSophomore

Goodwill, who hails from Lon-don, describes her style as “normally quite neat and put-to-gether.” She loves bright colors and feminine shapes, and has a closet full of clothes from all over Europe.

1. Hat, from France, $40.“It keeps my head warm and not many people wear hats.”

2.Scarf, White Company, price unknown.“It’s cashmere, and really soft.”

3.Dress, French Connection, $80“I like dresses, and this one is easy to wear yet original.”

4.Coat, $140.“I love it because it’s red and I ike how it flares out.”

5.Leather bag, $100, from Italy.“It’s really big!”

—Anna Tong

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BY MATT SACHS

The band for this weeks review is by no means a new, up-in-coming band. Yet, as I get to know more and more peo-ple here at Harvard and learn about their favorite artists, rarely does this band’s name come up. Hopefully, I can change that. The New Pornographers is almost a super group of Canadian American indie-rockers. Founded in Van-couver, they released their first CD in 2000, entitled Mass Romantic. Since then the band has released three other CD’s together in addition to participat-ing in several other side projects and solo careers. Recognized as one of the best modern power-pop bands around, they began

with a sound reminiscent of The Cars and Brian Wil-son. Yet with their most recent CDs, Twin Cinema

in 2005 and Chal-lengers in 2007,

there style has changed s l i g h t l y , m o v i n g away from the rock-

based sound, and more to-

wards a string of catchy, pop-based mel-

odies tied together. Challengers, the most recent release by The New P o r -nographers, i s more mellow t h a n previous re- l e a s -es, upsetting some of the dead hard p o w e r - rock fans of the first a l b u m s . However, for me, I find

the change a real treat. Nearly every song is writ-ten, and sung, by the band’s front-man, A.C. Newman, yet the back-up vocals of Neko Case is what gives the songs such an appeal. The CD opens with My Rights Versus Yours, a cheerful tune consisting of three or four irresist-ibly catchy themes strung together by the harmonies of Neko Case. From there, the song Challengers fea-tures solo Case, accompa-nied by the soft cushion of the piano and banjo. The delicacy of her voice along with the distance of the piano makes this song one of the best on the album. From an opening that is somewhat reserved and introspec-tive, the

band moves to some songs a little more familiar to their fan base. Myriad Har-bor is a classic power-rock anthem so typical of the indie group that sounds not too dissimilar from earlier bands like Cheap Trick. Although I per-sonally really enjoy Chal-lengers, I encourage you to check out all of their CDs, especially if you’re in the mood to listen to The Shins and The Cars at the same time. Until next week, enjoy.

What-ever is on

your mind, this CDcanhelpyou

bring it out

New pornography moving from rock towards pop melody

SUPER GROUP Voice reviewer Matt Sachs explores the super group of Canadian American indie-rockers

Challengers, the most recent release by the band, is more mellow than previous work

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Doubet recommends music “perfect for playing during a family gathering.” Wow. He’s getting soft

Soul is not Seal’s usu-al fair, but it’s a nice album nonetheless. Perhaps it won’t make any Best Album lists, but it’s an enjoyable 45 minutes of music. On Soul, Seal covers a ros-ter of twelve clas-sic soul tunes from James Brown’s “It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World” to tunes by Curtis Mayfield and Al Green. It’s great study music.While these songs are, arguably, hard to make unique due to their sheer fame and, in some

cases, ubiquity, but Seal’s croon manages to make them worth-while. He’s got a rasp in his voice that makes the tracks interesting. Thrown in some great production by David

Fos-t e r

(he’s produced Mariah Carey, Michael Jack-son, and Madonna, to name a few), and the re-sult is some thoroughly smooth and enjoyable

tracks.Like I said, there’s nothing groundbreak-ing here, but it’s nice music that’ll make you feel good. It’s the kind of music that would be perfect for playing dur-ing a family gathering, say, for Thanksgiving. Your parents would love it as a stocking stuffer, I would wager. Check it out.

SoulSeal

Thr33 Ringz T.Pain

HERE’S SOME MUSIC FOR

BASHED BY

Alex DoubetReviews EditorListen! Don’t listen!

Let’s put all the cards on the table up front: I thought I knew exactly what I was in for when I started listening to T-Pain’s new album, the quizzically namedThr33Ringz. I must ad-mit though, Mr. Pain sure disappointed me. His skits weren’t funny (are they ever, on any al-bum?), and I didn’t find myself enjoying the tracks much.You see, T-Pain, the king of the vocoder,

brings generic pop rap to whole new middling levels of generalness. “Can’t Believe It,” fea-turing Lil Wayne, is the album’s lead single, but it didn’t do a thing for me. I didn’t tap my foot,

I didn’t bob my head… nothing. I just sat there listening. It’s nothing you’d want to hear in a club or, for that matter,

on the radio.I loved T-Pain on Flo Rida’s “Low,” but that was an awesome single. There’s not much to rec-ommend on this album, even so far as T-Pain’s supposed singles go. Even the laundry list of huge stars—Kanye, Did-dy, and Akon, to name a few—doesn’t make fun for the overwhelming mediocrity of the album as a whole. Skip this one and stick with “Low.”

Listen! Don’t listen!

THANKSGIVING. EH...

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“There’s much to be

thankful for. There’s a recession and we are alive!”

WHAT ARE INTERNATIONAL KIDS THANKFUL FOR?

Thanksgiving: it’s the all-American holiday. Besides the requisite turkey din-ner, there is just so much more: the Macy’s Thanks-givingDay parade,moreNFL and college football games on television than you can watch. Then, there is the official start of the Christ-mas shopping season, and innocent elementary school children all across America participating in a “Thanksgiving feast,” dressed as either an In-dian complete with paper-bag costume and feather-headdress or as a Pilgrim with an equally cheap and slightly depressing getup. (Because nothing else screams, “Look at me, I’m an exploitative separatist!” more than those funny looking white bonnets and unnecessar-ily large collars.) Oh yeah, and there’s also that other thing where you gather with your family at the dinner table and give thanks for all the bless-ings you’ve received, or something. But mostly, it’s about the turkey, the football, and the parades. You’re probably thinking, “America, fuck yeah!” but non-American students – almosy twenty percent of the Harvard student population – are thinking, “America, what the fuck?” When you ask an international student what they know about the American Thanksgiving tradition, you encounter either an “I have no idea” or some historically mis-guided answers. “Thanks-giving is when the Indians and the Americans had dinner together,” Yazan Al-Karablieh ‘12 of Pales-

tine says with a tinge of dubiousness. Al-Karablieh is from Palestine, where there is nothing like the ove r - c o m m e r c i a l i z e d American Thanksgiving. Instead, there is a slightly similar holiday in which families gather together to celebrate the Muslim holiday Eid, which marks the end of Ramadan. “For you guys it’s a turkey, but for us it’s a goat,” he explains, alluding to the tradition of sacrificing a goat. In the defense of puzzled internation-als though, it must be admitted that Americans are just as confused with the true history behind Thanksgiving. Let’s just

GIVING THANKS:

Alisha RamosVoice Reporter

Some eat the turkey, others

sacrifice goats.

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say that Indians and Pil-grims having a grand ole time at a turkey feast at Plymouth isn’t exactly ac-curate. But I digress. While some in-ternational students are cynical and still con-fused about the concept of Thanksgiving, the general concept behind it is still well respected. “Thanksgiving is a great holiday. We have so much to be thankful for, but we don’t always realize it. For instance, even though we are facing a recession here in the US, we are still alive and there’s much to be hopeful for,” says Doris Hernandez ‘09 of Hondu-ras. Most internationals seemed very open to the idea of experiencing an all-American Thanksgiv-ing, even as the campus empties out as American students return to their homes for the break. “I’m trying to find a nice loving American family to take me in for the weekend,” says Rayman Aryani ‘12 of Yemen. Other internation-als seemed happy about the idea of having a break from work, regardless of whether or not the holi-day is kind of pointless or over-commercialized. “I think it’s cool to have holi-

days in general. You have time to meet with your family, so I think it’s real-ly good. It’s cool that you have days off and have time to relax,” says Talal Almani ‘12 of Pakistan. As over-commercialized, fattening, and bizarre as Thanksgiving is here in America (I mean, our president “pardons” a tur-key on live television?), there are other holidays which probably deserve a little more concern. “I think Thanksgiving is a lot more meaningful than Halloween,” Al-Karablieh says. True that, but inter-nationals will soon come to the realization that we love any excuse to romp about in consumerism. And not feel guilty about it.

THANKSGIVING. WTF?

The Lowell Ju-nior Common Room stood in for Kitchen Stadium as Harvard Chinese Stu-dents Association (CSA) hosted their fifth-annual Iron Chef cook-off Sat-urday night. Last year’s champion CSA team de-fended their title against the challengers, the Har-vard African Students As-sociation (HASA). The two groups presented their creations to a panel of judges that included HUPD Sgt. Kev-in Bryant, Professor of Chinese Emily Huang, and freshman rower and Thayer resi-dent Nigel Mu-noz. Notably absent was Annenberg ce-lebrity Domna Antoniu, who couldn’t make it due to a fam-ily emergency. RAZA, a Latino stu-dent organization, also couldn’t be there as planned. But the carefully planned event still went off a hitch. The audience munched on noodles and sipped soft drinks as the night began with a video of the two groups cooking earlier in the day. They made do with the limited accommodations of their dorm kitchens and time constraints and came up with two attractively pre-

sented three-course meals. The one condition: apples were to be an ingredient in every dish. HASA went first with its appetizer of apple squash soup. The judges praised the combination of flavors as well as its consistency. Sgt. Bryant liked “the way it slides around the bowl,” and Munoz held up a lumpy spoonful to demonstrate. HASA’s main course was mango apple chicken over white rice, which Munoz criticized as “a little awk-ward to get in my mouth.” One of the hosts, in an intentional Freudian slip,

referred to Munoz as “Simon,”

the derisive A m e r i -can Idol judge who s h a r e s M u n o z ’s thick Eng-

lish accent. T h e

reigning Iron Chefs of CSA were

next, bringing out a steak dish with caramelized on-ions and apples. Munoz recoiled at the dish’s ap-pearance, describing the sauce as “congealed.” “I hope it tastes better than it looks,” he said. A host pointed out that the dish-es were prepared earlier in the day and it was hard to preserve freshness, and also blamed “the Cam-bridge weather.” But in the end, Munoz and the

rest of the judges had a positive opinion of the steak’s taste. Dessert for CSA was cinnamon caramelized apples with blueberries and a dash of vanilla pudding. The hosts then announced an intermission as the judges reached a final decision. CSA event host Sanyee Yuan prefaced the big announcement with an inspirational story about going to dessert res-taurant Finale and seeing a six dollar slice of cake and realizing that we all have the potential to make a similar slice of cake for less money and somehow reaching the conclusion that “you are all winners today.” Sgt. Bryant gave a drum roll on the table, and the verdict was out: CSA won, defending their Iron Chef title and win-ning a $50 gift certificate to Finale. “It went su-perbly,” said Yuan as the event wound down. “The groups were technically allowed to start cooking at 3:00, but CSA had some food issues and couldn’t get started until around 5:30. So they did a great job getting past the time crunch.” Freshman attend-ee Andrew Klein thought that “the judges were a lit-tle harsh, but it was a spir-ited competition.” Most importantly, he added, “It was a nice break from the dining hall.”

CULINARY(and cultural) CLASHES IN LOWELL

“The judges were

a little hard, but it was a spirited competition.”

IRON CHEF CSA hosted the fifth annual culinary contest

BY JACK HOLKEBOER

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Dear Allison,I have been crushing on this guy for a while and he finally asked me out to dinner. It went really well and he even tried to hold my hand! The weird thing is, when the check came, he looked at me and asked me if I wanted to split the bill. Now I’m confused, was it really a date?

Sincerely,Checked out

DearChecked,I am all for women’s rights, but there are some traditions that should never change. If a guy invites you to dinner, he should pay. In this case, at-tempted hand-holding and all, it sounds like it was clearly a date but your suitor is just stingy. Maybe he’s been hit hard by the recession. He doesn’t have to be your sugar daddy, but he should treat you once in awhile. For now, just pick economical spots for your future dates, knowing you’ll be footing your portion of the

bill.

Dear Allison,I live with three other girls and we only have one bathroom. We are pretty good about not stepping on each other’s toes, but I bought some body wash exactly one week ago and now it is completely empty. Obviously, my room-mates have been helping themselves to my toiletries. How do I bring it up without sounding rude?

Sincerely,Sharing in the Shower

DearSharing,One week—wow. At least you know your roommates are clean. You definitely need to bring this up with your room-mates, but the worst thing you can do is sound accusa-tory. Don’t put them on thespot by asking whether or not they have been using your

body wash, but just gently re-mind them that you bought it for your own use (in case that

slipped their minds). If the problem

persists, just keep your stuff outside of the shower and bring it in with you whenever you

are showering. Then you know

it’s for your use only.

Dear Allison,I am in love with this amazing girl. I always ask her out and bring her gifts but she insists

she just wants to be friends. I am happy to be her friend but can’t help but want something more. I want to make her my wife one day. How can I con-vince her that we could be great together?

Sincerely,Hopeless in Love

DearHopeless,Last time I checked, marriage proposals are not the best way to seduce mysterious women. If you are really in love with this girl, and she says she just wants to be friends, then you should respect that. If you pressure her, she will end up resenting you and you will be

out a friend and a potential lover. Be patient, and if she’s smart, she’ll realize that youjust want her to be happy. And that is love, my friend.

DEAR ALLISON Allison BaumVoice Columnist

This girl just wants to be friends. But I want to make her my wife!

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