Okay, so supposedly this article is about how wunderkind elitist mag 02138, and how they unearthed this giant university-wide plagiarism scandal and revealed that Harvard's most prominent professors are "secretly" outsourcing menial research tasks to annoying student overachievers.
But since that's not particularly interesting or surprising, we've decided to switch to a new topic: 02138. Does anyone else find it sort-of annoying that this magazine (featuring articles like "How Not To Be Poor") is succeeding? [Note: Saying "Yes" might preclude you entry to various secret societies, highbrow social institutions and eclusive millionaire's clubs that you couldn't possibly afford, anyway, because let's face it, you went to Columbia.]
Nevertheless, we've decided to risk social pariahdom by voicing our dissatisfaction the only way we know how: through inarticulate instant messages. After the jump, a revealing IM debate between dueling Jossip editors Debbie Newman and Rebecca Aronauer. (Both Columbia grads).
Facebook is livid with Harvard-centric magazine 02138, which published what are likely sealed documents (PDF here) from the case filed against the social network by three Harvard grads who say founder Mark Zuckerberg stole their code for Connect U. The documents in question – supposedly obtained by a student reporter who simply asked the court records office for them – include a copy of Zuckerberg's online journal (we think they're called "blogs" now) where he calls another student a "bitch" while writing how "I’m a little intoxicated, not gonna lie. So what if it’s not even 10pm and it’s a Tuesday night? What?"
Which is followed by: "The Kirkland facebook is open on my computer desktop and some of these people have pretty horrendous facebook pics. I almost want to put some of these faces next to pictures of farm animals and have people vote on which is more attractive. It’s not such a great idea and probably not even funny, but Billy comes up with the idea of comparing two people from the facebook, and only sometimes putting a farm animal in there."
Zuckerberg's diary was yanked from the web, probably because Facebook is worth like $13 billion and something like that post might not please investors. That, or they didn't want to give away upcoming features, like Hot or Not: Farm Animal Edition.
Every few months, an article comes out to make you worried your most precious internet commodity, Facebook, is under attack. Harvard programmers and entrepeniers have long been accusing Mark Zuckerberg of stealing programming ideas in Facebook's developmental stages.
02138, the magazine for Harvard alums who are not over it yet, has devoted 5000 plus words on the issue.
We can't really blame them for the inflated coverage: After all, it's not as if a Yale dropout could have come up with Facebook. CONTINUED »
Talk of a Harvard's "not in the traditional sense" alumni magazine 02138 surfaced back in December, during the same period that Atlantic staffers were leaving Boston for Washington D.C. With Atlantic President David Bradley backing the new little mag, 02138 staffers began taking over the Boston digs, even before the disgruntled Atlantics could be fully moved out.
As you can probably anticipate, tensions grew. Bom Kim, founder and president of 02138, alligned with Bradley to raise this new baby, and Bradley's first child quickly got jealous. Well, they did have good reason — they were forced to fight for what was left of their turf.
Supplies and paper were being divvied, Kim used Atlantic's fax number (which was intended to move to D.C. along with the staff) for 02138's letterhead, and furniture was being stolen from offices.
Later that month, Mr. Kim moved a gray couch that had been outside the office of The Atlantic’s then art director, Mary Parsons, into the office of his incoming managing editor.
“It was her personal couch,†a staffer said. “It wasn’t an Atlantic couch.â€
This huge magazine office no-no caused Atlantic office manager Robert Moeller to stick “You Touch, You Die" labels to Atlantic staffers' stuff. Oh, dear. This is even more drama than we had in the entire last season of 90210. Can we a get a reality show crew in soon?
Harvard Prodigy Spends Bradley’s $4 Million;Alumni Await Magazine [Gabriel Sherman, New York Observer]
