Wednesday, December 10, 2008
A revolution from above at Harvard?
As somebody who suffered under the student government presidency of none other than Eliot Spitzer, I find it refreshing that Harvard's undergraduates are according their student government with all the respect it deserves:
The Waite-Petri campaign is adopting an age-old tradition of using their platform to advocate for the abolition of the Council. There is one caveat, however. “We’re going to invite a member of the House of Hapsburg to rule the student body indefinitely instead,” Waite says.
“I think that a member of the Royal Family would be in a much stronger position to negotiate with the administration and faculty,” he explains. “It’s much easier for Harvard to blow off a group of self-important undergrads than it is the House of Hapsburg.”
Regular readers know that I have contempt for monarchy, but in this case I would make an exception.
CWCID: Joshua Keating at FP Passport.
10 Comments:
By 
Viking Kaj, at
Wed Dec 10, 10:54:00 AM:
Speaking of Spitzers, did you notice that Bernie (Elliot's Dad) lost a discrimination suit brought by his former doormen in NYC last week? They alleged they were fired because they were black, and they won.
Looks like they will be getting more than "Change" this christmas...
By Viking Kaj, at
Wed Dec 10, 11:01:00 AM:
Hey, did anybody else notice that comment about farming arable land in Canada?
I wonder if that was a sly reference to "BC Bud" (See eg. www.bcbuddepot.com.)
Seems like the more things change on campus the more they stay the same...
By Escort81, at
Wed Dec 10, 06:34:00 PM:
Hey, if no Hapsburgs are available, I'll volunteer. Go with nobility if royalty can't make it -- my maternal grandfather was a Hungarian Count (like Dracula without the cape and fangs, or perhaps more like the Ralph Fiennes character Laszlo de Alamsy from The English Patient, who would roughly have been his contemporary). But somebody is going to have to Tivo all of the Phillies games for me, or get me a Sling Box. I don't want to watch all of the Red Sox games. On second thought, it's Harvard, forget the whole thing, who cares.
By D.E. Cloutier, at
Wed Dec 10, 09:07:00 PM:
Interesting, Escort81. Meanwhile, how is your escort service doing during the recession?
By Escort81, at
Wed Dec 10, 09:39:00 PM:
DEC - I seem to have one steady client who monthly jets in from S. Florida. Thankfully, some luxury services are immune from economic downturns. I think my grandfather (I only met him twice, in the early 1960s when I was a toddler) would be proud of my price inelasticity. He was married three times (Catholics with means could purchase dispensations as needed in pre-war Europe), and his third wife was 26 years his junior.
By D.E. Cloutier, at
Wed Dec 10, 09:47:00 PM:
I would have liked your grandfather, Escort81. I, too, married three times. And I occasionally travel with two former exotic dancers.
By TigerHawk, at
Wed Dec 10, 10:11:00 PM:
You didn't by any chance hang with Charlie Wilson, didja DEC?
By D.E. Cloutier, at
Wed Dec 10, 10:22:00 PM:
No, TH.
From time to time, the women pick up useful information from my competitors at hotel swimming pools. Guys frequently talk too much when they meet pretty, bikini-clad women with long blonde hair.
By 
, at
Thu Dec 11, 10:05:00 AM:
I volunteer to be your next victim Dec- just let me know your next hotel location and I'll be there, talking willingly.
By , at
Fri Dec 12, 01:45:00 PM:
Reminiscent of the Antarctica Liberation Front.
--Scurvy Oaks
