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A 30-minute delay, audio and video difficulties and a sample of an as yet unreleased work-in-progress from an up and coming artist foreshadowed an informal exploration into the enigmatic genre of hip-hop. Sponsored by the Recording Artists' Project (RAP), a Law School-based clinical program that provides legal services for local music talent, the panel, held in Austin North last Thursday, included a range of industry personalities, including Richard Frierson, a freelance producer; Jayson Jackson of Virgin Records, who has worked with the likes of Lauryn Hill and P.
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"Honestly, I would be sick of reading another story about me," says 3L Murad Kalam, a soon-to-be-published novelist. He is sitting in Starbucks in an unassuming button down shirt and gray slacks. Between abrupt gulps of coffee, he is animatedly attempting to explain his book, his life and even his future.
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Ripping open his mail, Fenno couldn't believe his eyes, but there it was. He had managed to accumulate $140,000 in debt over his three years at HLS, and the first payment was due soon. After the bar, all those computer loans would catch up with him. Fenno looked around his room and turned to his only hope for salvation.
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Ah...summer. You don't have to be too much of a starry-eyed dreamer to instinctually associate the glitter-kissed rays of sunlight that fill long days of summer with the familiar caress of a favorite song, or give a pulse to the long warm nights with the gut-level jump of a catchy beat.
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An absolute thicket of gear onstage, video screens playing an endless loop of spiraling, colorful images, the constant rumble of waves and walls and wedges of sound turning the room into a giant reverb tank - it's the type of stuff that makes critics want to start throwing around terms like "space rock" and make off-the-cuff comparisons to Kid A.
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Though today's headlines are filled with stories of violence in the Middle East, many Americans may not remember that one of history's bloodiest recent waves of violence was finally ended by students who never fired a shot. Although most Americans probably credit the fall of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic to international military efforts, they fail to realize that Milosevic persisted in his role as dictator of Serbia after those efforts ended, and even further solidified his power.
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Someday 1Ls Patrick Chung, Aman Kapadia, Jonathan Rotter and Dean John Sauer will have their names on the wall of Langdell Library. It just might not happen anytime soon. As the winners of the 2002 Williston Contracts Competition, the four won a modest cash prize and the much more august award of immortal celebrity on a plaque in the library.
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The problems that began with the posting of racially offensive outlines on the HL Central outline bank by a Section IV student in early March have now grown into a widespread controversy involving a series of incidents that implicate students, professors and at least one student organization.
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Tonight, you can make the 2002 Class Marshals spend a day in your service or have an HLS professor take notes in one of your classes. You can buy guitar lessons, a weekend in Alaska or a night of clubbing with Prof. Brewer. Or, simply watch your classmates bid recklessly indulgent amounts of money on luxuries they wouldn't dream of buying somewhere else.
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In a lecture Tuesday on the roots of terrorism, Professor Alan Dershowitz argued that terrorism stems not from desperation or dispossession but from the simple fact that it works. Tracing the history of modern terrorism and the world's response to it, with particular focus on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Professor Dershowitz made the case that "global terror is a problem of our own making" due to America's historical practice of rewarding its perpetrators.
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Call To Conscience: An Open Letter to Dean Clark and Dean Rakoff Belief in the ideals of Harvard Law School - the power of rules, reason, persuasion, diversity, and equity - has endowed BLSA with patience during these recent and previous eruptions of anti-Black harassment.
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This weekend, I took part in that most aggravating of annual rituals and filled out my 1040 form. The experience brought to mind my favorite conservative pipe dream (aside from the naughty ones), the one where tax day comes right before election day. One year of that would guarantee us a streamlined system of calculating taxes, a minimal amount of paperwork and a lot more of our income left in our pockets.