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Capsules from Indy Arts' series on books that speak to the college experience.
By Anonymous in Arts

2. Out of sight, out of heart
Published Friday, June 14, 2002

Let me preface these remarks with a confession: I am a hopeless romantic. I fervently believe in things like love at first sight and happily ever after. I press and save roses from former admirers. I've been known to write sonnets, occasionally, in brocade-covered journals. It is to those of you who share this description that I offer my advice most urgently: break up with your high school boyfriend or girlfriend.
By Erin Sheley in Forum

3. Don't join a cult
Published Friday, June 14, 2002

Imagine this: a handsome man, elegant, obviously lettered, puffing his pipe and ruminating. Except for the adjectives, that's me. From my perch, three Harvard-years high, I'm looking down on a figure: small, overeager, and wearing a science fair T-shirt. That's you. There's a campus industry at Harvard composed of old people like me giving advice to young frosh like you, and we do a terrible job. That's because most advice is a set of empty affirmations: do this, do that, seize the day, meet interesting people, take advantage of the opportunities around you. Who can follow advice like that? It's as vague as a horoscope, and as interesting as a Christian bookstore.
By Glenn Kinen in Forum

4. The Unofficial Guide to: Frosh Intramurals
Published Friday, June 14, 2002

If your housing form you received this summer said "Stoughton" on it, you may have blinked a couple times before it set in. One of the yards smallest dorms, Stoughton is home to 40 or 50 freshmen. Other than a semi-collapsed ceiling last year, Stoughton is fairly quiet. Why? Because two straight Yard Bucket championships speak for themselves, baby.
By Joseph K. Costello in Sports

5. IMagine
Published Friday, June 14, 2002

As you probably know, fair Harvard is home to the largest varsity sport program in America, whichplaces it high in the running for largest worldwide. Along with this thriving jock culture comes an equally enthusiastic intramural sports program where high school stars can mingle with gumpy CS kids and former curling Olympians can play B-league squash. But what about visionary new sports? For example, sports where vertically challeneged individuals (let's call them "midgets") can run the floor with comparably-sized males and females. Appropriately this newest sport would be named "coed midget basketball."
By Joseph K. Costello in Sports

6. Harvard 101
Published Friday, June 14, 2002

As you will soon learn, Harvard students are good at many things, not the least of which is complaining about each other and the faculty and administration that looks over us. Of course, you'll be too busy studying to follow every single controversy on our oft-contentious campus—that's what journalists are for. So to give you a head start, here's a look at some of the issues you'll be hearing more about this fall:
By Susan Ashley in News

7. What we learned this year in sports
Published Friday, June 14, 2002

eBay in eXcess We learned that some people need to get up off their duffs, pick up the rake, and do some work on their lawns, or anything to keep them off eBay. Now professional baseball players are putting things like bone fragments and used gum up on the Internet auction site.
By Andrew Ujifusa in Sports

8. Loving Luna
Published Friday, June 14, 2002

What do you do with a Harvard degree in Social Studies? For Dean Wareham '87, the answer is making heartbreakingly delicate pop songs. As the lead-singer of Luna, the band that rose from the ashes of the indie-rock deity Galaxie 500, Wareham has been writing clean, emotive guitar rock for almost two decades, and fending off accusations of being an "aristorocker" due to his "highbrow" education.
By Matthew Yglesias in Sports

9. Fast times at Brattle High
Published Friday, June 14, 2002

Because renting is for the weak, Harvard Square's Brattle Theatre resurrects dusty classics and cult masterpieces for the experience en masse so often dispensed with and diluted in this era.
By Jon Sherman in Arts