{"id":2716,"date":"2004-11-14T23:30:20","date_gmt":"2004-11-15T03:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/11\/14\/membrum-virile-envy\/"},"modified":"2004-11-14T23:30:20","modified_gmt":"2004-11-15T03:30:20","slug":"membrum-virile-envy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/11\/14\/membrum-virile-envy\/","title":{"rendered":"Membrum Virile Envy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a4169'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/crimsonmascot.gif\" width=\"205\" height=\"200\" align=\"left\">The<br \/>\n        Dowbrigade&#8217;s present center of operations, Boston University, has long<br \/>\n        had a serious case of endemic envy towards its downstream<br \/>\n        neighbor and Dowbrigade Alma Mater Harvard University. Like a frustrated,<br \/>\n        neurotic younger sibling, BU both looks up to the Senior School in Town,<br \/>\n        and looks for every opportunity to outdo or find fault with the favorite<br \/>\n        son.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard, 200 years older and orders of magnitude richer, barely acknowledges<br \/>\n        the cross-town rivalry, preferring to consider Oxford and the Sorbonne<br \/>\n      as the only other member of its class, and even they just barely.<\/p>\n<p>Boston University is only now, three years after sending him off<br \/>\n        into the sunset, emerging from the shadow of John Silber, a magnificently<br \/>\n        flawed leader who led the university for over three decades and raised<br \/>\n        it from a mediocre academic spa for rich kids from New York City to a<br \/>\n        cosmopolitan spa for rich kids from around the world, with a few bright<br \/>\n        spots of academic excellence. Silber was undeniably brilliant but<br \/>\n        a wacko technocrat who ruled with an iron fist and came within an on-camera<br \/>\n        election eve breakdown of getting elected Governor of Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, it seems a bit like unsightly piling on to read in this morning&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/education\/higher\/articles\/2004\/11\/14\/harvards_stance_on_nazis_questioned\/\">Boston<br \/>\n        Globe<\/a> that Boston University is hosting a conference this weekend<br \/>\n        whose sole purpose seems to be to spread scurrilous rumors and innuendo<br \/>\n        to the<br \/>\n      effect that Harvard legitimized Nazism by being slow to cut all connections<br \/>\n        to the evil regime.<\/p>\n<p>Sure they allowed favorite son and longtime Nazi Ernst &#8221;Putzi&quot; Hanfstaengl,<br \/>\n        Hitler&#8217;s foreign press secretary to march in the Commencement Procession<br \/>\n        in 1934, his 25th reunion. The suave Continental Operator was even<br \/>\n        invited for tea at President Conant&#8217;s house. And it&#8217;s true that Harvard<br \/>\n        sent an official delegation to the anniversary of the University of Heidelberg in 1936, after that august institution had already purged all of its Jewish students and professors,<br \/>\n        but hell, any University that makes it through 500 years of European<br \/>\n        history certainly transcends transitory political perturbations like<br \/>\n        Nazism. An Academic extravaganza like that happens only once or twice<br \/>\n        a millennium,<br \/>\n        and is not to be missed.<\/p>\n<p>However, according to Steven H. Norwood, a Professor at the University<br \/>\n          of Oklahoma, who presented his paper at the BU conference today, these<br \/>\n        incidents were indicative of rotten crypto-fascist tendencies.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8216;Harvard was involved in active steps that helped legitimate the Nazi<br \/>\n          regime in the West,&quot; Norwood said in an interview Friday. &#8221;Harvard<br \/>\n          was among the worst [universities], and its record was shameful and<br \/>\n          unjustifiable.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>          Harvard officials dispute Norwood&#8217;s conclusions, which he will present<br \/>\n          today in a research paper titled, &#8221;Legitimating Nazism: Harvard University<br \/>\n        and the Hitler Regime.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n        Seems like sour grapes to us, coming from a football factory via a school<br \/>\n          that was churning out stenographers and golfers during WWII. We doubt<br \/>\n          the World&#8217;s Greatest University will be seriously compromised by the<br \/>\n          disclosures.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the &quot;Me, too&quot; at BU is embarrassingly obvious. As Exhibit<br \/>\n        B, let us present &quot;Boink&quot; an incipient Sex Magazine recently announced<br \/>\n        by<br \/>\n        the weak sister on the Boston side of the Charles. As anyone who has<br \/>\n        been paying attention will remember, Harvard Students started their Sex<br \/>\n      Magazine &quot;H-Bomb&quot; over six months ago. Better late than never, we guess.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Move<br \/>\n          over, Harvard: Students at Boston University may have their own sex<br \/>\n            magazine<br \/>\n            by early<br \/>\n            next<br \/>\n            year<br \/>\n            &#8212; and<br \/>\n            this time,<br \/>\n            the<br \/>\n            editor<br \/>\n            doesn&#8217;t<br \/>\n            mind<br \/>\n            if you call it pornography.<\/p>\n<p>          Less than six months after the controversial H Bomb magazine hit mailboxes<br \/>\n        at Harvard, complete with artsy nude photographs, a BU journalism major<br \/>\n        has announced plans for Boink, a glossy magazine that will feature nude<br \/>\n        photos of students and articles about sex. The 96-page debut issue is planned<br \/>\n        for January.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Sex is such a huge part of college life, it&#8217;s something we need to address,&quot; said<br \/>\n        Alecia Oleyourryk, 20, a senior from upstate New York and the creator<br \/>\nof Boink.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We say its time for BU to grow up and strike out on its own, in a direction<br \/>\n      the frumpy Yankee matron across the river has yet to even consider.&nbsp; We<br \/>\n      would suggest perhaps a Department of Hobbitology, or perhaps a Reality<br \/>\n      Television Think Tank.&nbsp; Leave the Nazis alone.<\/p>\n<p>from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2004\/10\/06\/bu_students_to_get_own_sex_magazine\/\"> the<br \/>\n      Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dowbrigade&#8217;s present center of operations, Boston University, has long had a serious case of endemic envy towards its downstream neighbor and Dowbrigade Alma Mater Harvard University. 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