Years of Poems and Spirits

1. Students are alarmed when some saw lab rats dashing around on Balmer third floor. Pest control was later recalled, however, after Prof. Christina Fong recognized them as visiting perspective students in her class.

2. A crisis has been brewing among the 08ers: because the participation grade is proportional to number of questions asked and/or comments made during the class, students are rushing to fill in their quotas as the quarter draws near to an end.

Yesterday, MBA office was alerted that some students have resorted to flashing to get instructors’ attentions. The fad started innocently when Lisa Meyr yanked her parka off while asking a question. Soon the situation degenerated into some students going “full monty”. However, the effectiveness of such extreme measures remains to be seen. In Jane Kennedy’s Financial Reporting (in the published version it is Nolan and Kurma’s) class, for example, exposing students complained bitterly how the professor kept ignoring them until it was “too damn cold for me to go on like this.”

3. According to a press release from IT and Innovation Museum at Harvard Business School (ITIM@HBS), Professor Richard Nolan has just donated his recently retired laptop to the museum. This latest donation is the 37th IT artifacts from Professor Nolan. In an interview with the Crimson, Prof. Nolan reflected on his decision, “I used to hull every piece of IT artifacts I had since the 1970s to the class. One day I thought to myself, this is not right. This is not scalable. Why don’t I give them to a museum so EVERY student has a chance to see them? Then I said to myself, where is a better place than ITIM@HBS?” Also from the press release, the laptop involved is a three-year old Gateway with an Intel 1.4Ghz CPU, 512M of ram and 40G hard disk.