The Arab Student Organization was so concerned about the movie's depiction of Arab life that they distributed educational flyers to those attending Cinematheque's Friday showing of the film. The trailers unfairly inter-cut scenes of Arabs at prayer and acts of violence. Luckard emphasized that distributing flyers was not an act of protest. In response to e-mails about the movie, Luckard scheduled a discussion following the movie, but the forum was cancelled because of a low turnout. Thanks to four Harvard University roommates, some University students no longer need to risk the awkwardness of asking out a potential date.
Students can now look to the Web for help with their love life.
The site works by allowing a person to choose seven people with whom they have an interest. All seven people receive an anonymous e-mail from Datesite stating that someone wants to ask them out on a date. If a person is interested, they can log onto the site and list seven other college students that they are interested in, simply by including each person's college e-mail address. An automated system then reviews the lists and identifies matching addresses, and the site's users get e-mail informing them they have a match. Although the site was originally only going to serve students in the Boston area, according to the release, popularity has caused the site to spread down the East Coast and beyond.