‘This gives them another chance’ to tackle issues facing millennials, Harvard’s John Della Volpe tells MTV News. By Gil Kaufman Barack Obama Photo: Getty Images
Harvard better expect an open letter from Bey very soon… Harvard Tells Black Girl Can’t She List Jay-Z As A Role Model Via BusinessInsider : Back in 2005, a Harvard freshman filling out a profile for an on-campus recruiting program listed Jay-Z as her business role-model. Chanequa Campbell was promptly called into the Office of Career Services and told to name someone else. “It’s not appropriate. I don’t think people will respond well to this,” the career counselor told her. Campbell, who grew up seven blocks from Jay-Z in Brooklyn and idolized the drug-dealer turned rapper turned entrepreneur, refused to name someone else. She argued with the career counselor awhile longer, finally offering as a small concession to use her role model’s given name, Sean Carter. “I know his resume,” Campbell told me. “He made most of his major respect—Wall Street respect—since ’04.” Seven years later Campbell, who ended up getting kicked out of Harvard, still gets upset telling how Harvard didn’t respect the businessman from her community. “Most of Jay-Z’s songs, if you understand his vernacular, he’s telling you how to be cool, how to be good at life,” Campbell says. “He’s promoting things of content, things to aspire to. He mentions Warhol, he mentions Basquiat. He mentions people you’ve never heard of. He brings this light to our normal conversation.” Hov hangs out with Barack Obama and parties with Warren Buffett. He trails only Sean “Diddy” Combs on the Forbes’ list of Future Hip-Hop Billionaires. If either makes the cut, he will join the short list of currently only five black billionaires in the world. Did Harvard get it wrong? Can rappers be role models too?
The choices we make… dictate the lives we lead. SMH It took less than two weeks for Harvard Basketball co-captain Kyle Casey to withdraw from school for the entire academic year after the shake down in a widespread academic cheating scandal. With Harvard’s fall enrollment deadline looming Tuesday, Casey withdrew from school and co-captain Brandyn Curry was expected to do the same, in an attempt to preserve their final year of eligibility. On Aug. 30, Harvard College announced in a letter that its administrative board was investigating allegations that approximately 125 undergraduates “may have committed acts of academic dishonesty, ranging from inappropriate collaboration to outright plagiarism, on a take-home final exam.” The exam was for Government 1310: Introduction to Congress, a spring 2012 class with an enrollment of 279. Sources said that Casey, Curry and one additional men’s basketball player are among a group of athletes and non-athletes whose cases are pending review. They are facing charges of academic dishonesty that could carry a one-year suspension from school. Amaker, who came to Harvard in 2007 after being dismissed from Michigan, has coached the Crimson to 20-win seasons in each of the past three years, including a 26-5 record in 2011-12. They were the early favorite to repeat as Ivy League champions next season, given that Casey, who also considered attending Stanford and Vanderbilt out of high school in Medway, Mass., was a potential contender for Ivy League player of the year and Curry was expected to be among the conference’s best point guards. For at least one season, Harvard will have to make do without them. Lesson learned?? Or do you think this was a harsh punishment? Source Images via Twitter
This doesn’t look like the Rashida Jones I am used to. You know the Harvard graduate, daughter of Peggy Lipton and Quincy Jones, Star of I Love you Man….Our Idiot Brother and all movies with that Segal motherfucker….she’s also on Parks and Recreation, something I’ve never seen but know that people like…..because Americans are retards and embrace, worship, trust and get controlled by all things that are on the TV because that is what is there for…. Either way, I’ve never found her hot, but for some reason this photoshoot, puts her 40 year old black/jewish rich kid face into a whole new light…one I can masturbate to…
‘It makes my day to see it,’ Jepsen tells MTV News about clips by everyone from Justin Bieber to the Harvard baseball team. By Christina Garibaldi Carly Rae Jepsen Photo: MTV News It’s been just a few months since Justin Bieber signed Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen to his Schoolboy Records, but since then, she has certainly made her mark on the music scene. Her infectious hit single “Call Me Maybe” is currently #1 on the iTunes songs chart and #4 on Billboard ‘s Hot 100 chart and has spawned a barrage of humorous and entertaining online video parodies that have captured the attention of not only fans but Jepsen herself. “I have seen a few. It’s pretty rad that people are participating and making their own versions. It makes my day to see it,” Jepsen told MTV News. “It’s hard to imagine this, even though I’m living this every day, it’s kind of hard to believe it sometimes. [I] definitely didn’t predict this.” The online lip-synching parodies seem to be the latest craze, especially among college students. Sports teams from Duke, UConn, Syracuse and Southern Methodist University have all posted their own versions of the song, but it was taken to another level when the Harvard baseball team choreographed an intricate fist-pump dance while singing along to the single. “I saw the fist pump, it was so cute. It was funny because every chorus, they added a new element. I was like, they really planned this out, this is so fantastic,” Jepsen said of the Harvard video. “It’s so cool that it’s sort of sparked this online thing. It’s really neat.” College students aren’t the only ones obsessing over this song. Actor James Franco posted his own version of the song , and just last month, Katy Perry uploaded her own parody , featuring herself and a group of friends at a Coachella pool party. “I was in London at the time I saw Katy’s version of ‘Call Me Maybe.’ I think she was at Coachella when she shot it, which was really cool,” Jepsen said. “It was another surreal moment: Being in London was already crazy and then on top of it, to kind of see all the stars were reaching out and doing their versions as well, it was kind of like a cherry on top of the whole thing.” We may have to thank Bieber for all of these videos since he is the one that started the trend. Back in February, Bieber, along with his girlfriend Selena Gomez, Ashley Tisdale and Big Time Rush, created his own music video , playfully singing along to the inescapable track. “I have a long list of thank-yous that I owe to Justin for everything to do with my career,” Jepsen said. “He’s just kind of opened the door to the rest of the world to me.” Which “Call Me Maybe” parody is your favorite? Let us know in the comments. Related Artists Carly Rae Jepsen
Carly Rae Jepson’s “Call Me Maybe” has managed to stay popular on the Internet for months now, claiming the hearts of your most bro-iest brogrammers and feminist-y pop culture bloggers alike. Every couple of days, a new viral tribute seems to pop up, but few have managed to garner the popularity of the Harvard baseball team’s lip dub/van dance version released early last week (the original upload… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Jezebel Discovery Date : 16/05/2012 20:14 Number of articles : 2
Carly Rae Jepson’s “Call Me Maybe” has managed to stay popular on the Internet for months now, claiming the hearts of your most bro-iest brogrammers and feminist-y pop culture bloggers alike. Every couple of days, a new viral tribute seems to pop up, but few have managed to garner the popularity of the Harvard baseball team’s lip dub/van dance version released early last week (the original upload… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Jezebel Discovery Date : 16/05/2012 20:14 Number of articles : 2
Maurice Sendak, the author of one of the most popular children’s books of all-time, has passed from complications related to a stroke. He was 83. A writer and an illustrator, Sendak rose to prominence in 1963 with the publication of “Where the Wild Things Are.” It was made into a movie in 2009. Sendak’s reputation grew over time as someone with frank opinions and a dark sense of humor. His works often featured especially angry, rebellious young children and he made headlines against in January during an appearance on The Colbert Report (excerpted in the following video), during which he said: “I don’t write for children. I like them as few and far between as I do adults.” Maurice Sendak on The Colbert Report Sendak resided with his partner, psychiatrist Eugene Glynn, for 50 years before the latter died of lung cancer in 2007. We send our thoughts to his loved ones.
What did a half dozen members of the Harvard University baseball team do when they ran out of ways to pass the time during a recent road trip? If you guessed “choreograph and perform a dance to Carly Rae Jepsen’s ‘Call Me Maybe'” … you would be correct. And very good at this game! Not the most creative dance, but their range of motion is limited by their surroundings, so we’ll give them a pass. Watch the performance below: Harvard Baseball Team – Call Me Maybe Filmed and directed by Conner Hulse, the video stars Jack Colton (asleep), Jeff Reynolds, Steven Dill, Andrew Ferreira, Marcus Way, Kyle Larrow, Jon Smart, and Joey Novak. Yes, he was actually sleeping the whole time. This likely won’t be the last “Call Me Maybe” cover you see. If you haven’t seen it, here’s the Carly Rae Jepsen music video that spawned an infectious viral craze.
Facebook-aholics, do you agree with this one?? From bad breakups to bathroom updates to the amount of bacon your best friend can eat in a single sitting, we’ve all grown used to oversharers spilling their guts both online and off. “I share pretty much everything,” says Laura Keesee, a 25-year-old public relations account coordinator from Orlando, Fla. “From my random ADD thoughts to when some food has upset my stomach to details about my relationship. I think oversharing is part of my personality.” It’s also intrinsically rewarding, according to new research out of Harvard University that used fMRI scans to show how our brains react to sharing information about ourselves with others. “The Internet has drastically expanded the number of mediums through which we can talk about ourselves to other people,” says Diana Tamir, a graduate student in the Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab at Harvard and lead author of a study published today in the journal PNAS. “We were interested in why people engage in self-disclosure so seemingly excessively. The hypothesis we wanted to test was whether or not this behavior provided people with intrinsic or subjective value — did it feel good to do it.” As it turns out, it feels so good, our brains responds to self-disclosure the same way they respond to pleasure triggers like food, money or sex. Tamir and her colleagues conducted five studies involving nearly 300 people, most of them from the Harvard and Cambridge community. In some studies, participants were asked to disclose their own opinions while being scanned using fMRI, or functional magnetic resonance imaging, a technique that directly measures the blood flow in the brain, thereby providing information on brain activity. In others, participants were asked to complete certain behavioral tasks in exchange for varying amounts of money. Study subjects, as it turns out, were willing to go without 17 to 25 percent of their potential earnings if they could reveal info about themselves to others. “We called this the ‘penny for your thoughts study,’” says Tamir. “We wanted to know if people would pay money to engage in this behavior — to share information about themselves with other people — and it turns out they will.” Brain scans of participants revealed even more about the rewards of self-disclosure. Lawrence Winnerman, a 42-year-old project manager from Seattle, says he definitely finds oversharing rewarding. “If I post something on Facebook or say something that I think is going to be really funny and also particularly revealing about myself, I’m looking for a reaction and a laugh,” he says. “And I get really disappointed if I don’t get one. I know I’m absolutely doing it for the value of the rewards.” Damn, even 42-year-old project managers get a tingly sensation when people “Like” and interact with their FB updates. SMH. Thoughts?? Don’t forget to “Like” BOSSIP on Facebook now! Source
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