The Crimson Editorial Board Is Pleased To Announce its Fall 2008 Columnists:


Rajarshi Banerjee ‘11 is a neurobiology concentrator in Currier House. He will be writing on politics, the economy and the wider world: topics he knows little about and does not care to instruct himself in, on alternate Tuesdays. The results will be embarrassing.

Pierpaolo Barbieri ’09 is a history concentrator in Eliot House. His column, “Foreign Intelligence” will approach international politics from a historical and economic perspective, bringing the rest of the world to the ivory tower on alternate Thursdays.

Lewis E. Bollard ‘09 is a senior social studies concentrator living in Kirkland House. His column, “Into the Wild,” will continue to explore man’s changing relationship with animals and nature—and how harvard professors and students are engaging with it. This semester the column will cover topics from animal law to eco-terrorism and the growth of the “Wholefoods generation” on alternate Fridays.

Lucy M. Caldwell ‘09, a returning columnist, is a history and literature concentrator in Adams House. In her column “Spilt Milk,” she will continue to examine the collision of modern mores with conventional society on alternate Wednesdays.

Raúl A. Carrillo ‘10 is a social studies concentrator in Lowell House. His column “Brave New World” will explore globalization, world affairs, and the future of human society on alternate Fridays.

Steven T. Cupps ’09 is a Lowellian concentrating in human evolutionary biology. In his column “Cupps Runneth Over,” he will explore the campus, the nation, and the world with a splash of wit, a drop of wisdom, and a shot straight-up of common sense on alternate Thursdays.

Adam R. Gold ’11 lives in Adams House and plans to concentrate in physics. His column, “Fully Charged” is about science and technology and how they impact Harvard students. The column will try to touch on topics ranging from Napster to nanotubes and will focus on bringing the latest research to the rest of us on alternate Mondays.

Jillian J. Goodman ‘09 is an english concentrator in Quincy House. Her column on arts and the Zeitgeist appears on alternate Fridays.

Christopher B. Lacaria ’09, originally from Waterbury, Conn., is a history concentrator in Kirkland House and the editor emeritus of The Harvard Salient. “Conservative” in habit and disposition, but not in ideology, his column, “Modernity and Its Discontents,” will critically survey the absurdities and excesses of the postmodern Academy on alternate Mondays.

More taboo than sex, more divisive than baseball, politics—the art of making the possible impossible—has given us the country we have, and the country we don’t. On alternate Fridays, Elise X. Liu ‘11 takes a blunt and unabashedly partisan look at the power behind the pettiness, and the facts behind the news.

On the road to six-figure salaries, or maybe in between section and the third meeting of the day, it is often easy to let a lot of life’s nuance pass by unnoticed. On alternate Wednesdays, Marina S. Magloire ’11 will call attention to these moments and to expound upon their hilarity, their poignancy, and their meaning in the grander scheme of things.

Alexandra A. Petri ‘10 is a joint concentrator in english and classics in Eliot House. She hopes that her alternate Tuesday column, “Petri Dishes,” will continue to resemble a real petri dish by allowing her to turn a distinctive lens onto university cultures. Also by containing a strange green fungal growth in one corner.