<p>Front page news in the Boston Globe this morning!</p>
<p>It looks like the anti-PC counter-revolution is about to begin on the cutting-edge Cambridge Campus. </p>
<p>Other schools will presumably be monitoring developments and altering their own policies accordingly!</p>
<p>I need my Cocoa Puffs. </p>
<p>Alas...if I'm accepted and the situation remains like this, I don't know if I'll be able to say "yes" to Harvard anymore.</p>
<p>What a shame.</p>
<p>After admission, you will have a month or so to monitor the situation and make further inquiries. </p>
<p>I encourage you to contact the admissions office and let them know you will be unable to enroll if they refuse to accomodate your dietary needs.</p>
<p>The healthfood nazis have to be put in their place. They consider insisting on Sugar Pops to be as socially unacceptable as toting a pair of pearl-handled pistols to class.</p>
<p>There is a general law on Usenet: He who first compares his debate opponent to World War Two Germany unconditionally loses.</p>
<p>"The healthfood nazis have to be put in their place. They consider insisting on Sugar Pops to be as socially unacceptable as toting a pair of pearl-handled pistols to class."</p>
<p>I beg to disagree, the health food nazis are liberal and liberals tend to be pro gun control.
They wouldn't tote guns, just throw money out of the windows of the limo like all bleeding heart liberal :D</p>
<p>byerly, you are funny</p>
<p>That is so awesome. Harvard has a six-figure cereal budget.</p>
<p>i happen to like marshmallow mateys. :)</p>
<p>gimme my lucky charms and honey-nut cheerios!!</p>
<p>I don't quite know what to think of this... but to me, I think it's worth it to down Frootie Tooties if I'll be getting a Harvard education, but that's just me...</p>
<p>though who knows the knowledge that can be imparted from fruit loops</p>
<p>its a question for the ages, or rather, the bored</p>
<p>guys... um speaking as a devout-bargain hunter... tootie frooties TASTE EXACTLY LIKE FRUIT LOOPS!!!!! geez. there's not even a difference in taste between real lucky charms and the ghetto ones. if this is serious.. it's quite sad.</p>
<p>The claim is that generic-brand cereals become soggy more rapidly than their brand name counterparts. I don't want to jump into such a controversial debate, but many generics are actually manufactured by the brand name companies they "mimic". You really are getting Cherios when you buy that box of "Round-Grain Breakfast Cereal".</p>
<p>I agree. I once had a teacher whose mom worked for Ralphs and that's what she told my class. It's all the same.</p>
<p>and dont forget the psychological effects of brand names on consumers. the brand names only seem better because of, well, the names.</p>
<p>good point. think about how bad "tootie fruities" sounds. heheh.</p>
<p>I agree that the change is annoying, but if one were to read the article, one would find that Harvard made the changes with the idea of cutting costs in mind.</p>
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<p>Byerly, your assertion that Harvard is being held hostage by the "Nazis", is simply incorrect.</p>
<p>For someone who started this thread...I would have thought that you had thought this out more.</p>
<p>Don't believe everything you read in the ultra-liberal Boston Globe.</p>
<p>Its all part of a typical "we-know-what's-best-for-you" leftist conspiracy.</p>
<p>See, for example:</p>
<p>I love that this looks to be an issue of more concern at Harvard than Larry Summers's comments. I'm not even being sarcastic. I really love that they give more weight to the pressing issue of breakfast cereal. :)</p>
<p>There are serious cultural issues - inextricably tied to liberal education values - that I am convinced Harvard has not considered carefully enough. The faculty should take the matter up (although given their reflexive political correctness, one wonders whether they would understand the need of the "average person" for Lucky Charmes.)</p>
<p>See, for example:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.lavasurfer.com/cereal-guide.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.lavasurfer.com/cereal-guide.html</a></p>
<p>And ... LARRY SUMMERS TAKE NOTE!</p>
<p>The ultra-PC health food ayatollahs may have overstated the case against sugery cereal. Who cares what Nancy Hopkins, et al think?</p>
<p>From Byerly's link a couple of posts ago:</p>
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Whole-grain cereals beat bagels and muffins as the best breakfast for women trying to protect themselves against heart disease, according to a Harvard study.
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<p>Are you really trying to tell me that Fruit Loops are a whole-grain cereal?</p>
<p>Personally I'm a big fan of not wasting money on such crap. Why is it a good idea to spend six figures on something that isn't going to meet the nutritional needs of your students? If they want it merely for taste value, they should have to spend their own money to get it.</p>