CNN.com currently has a top news headline that reads, Abercrombie Pulls ‘Racist’ T-Shirts. The t-shirts sport slogans like “WONG BROTHERS LAUNDRY SERVICE: TWO WONGS CAN MAKE IT WHITE”. What was the company thinking? I got an email from an old friend who works for Abercrombie: turns out the shirts were his idea! He took a few of my questions via email this morning… Continue reading…
Chris La Cava is a Massachusetts native who is a fellow member of the Works’ User Interface team. He is from Carver, near Cape Cod. This is rural, cranberry bog country. Chris attended college at Hampshire, a school renowned for letting its students shape their own curriculum. He also took advantage of the five college consortium. He majored in Anthropology and mostly attended classes at Hampshire, UMass and Mount Holyoke. 
Chris later worked at MIT and applied for a Fulbright grant. He was MIT’s first choice in a three-tier acceptance process. The award was denied in the second tier (Fulbright’s Central Office). Though Fulbright doesn’t officially release their reasons for a denial, it was learned that an undergraduate trip to Cuba raised a red flag. Also, his proposal was to study religious-based resistance movements in the Yucatan, which was was “pretty intense at the time because of Chiapas.” It is likely that Fulbright was concerned about his safety–and their ass. Perhaps more significant than his educational accomplishments and travels in Central America, is his status as leader of the Greatest American Heroes, Austin’s favorite surf/ TV theme song band (stiff competition in this category). Continue reading…
