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Since its advent in 1995 in the wake of housing randomization, blocking has occupied a major slice of the scramble of freshmen year at Harvard. Some tight cliques form blocking groups in September, while other groups are a mish-mash of frightened freshmen who come together at the last moment in order to avoid lonely floater-status...
...system in condemning such an infringement. We hope that this sort of misconduct does not repeat itself, either in this trial or in future ones, and that the federal government appropriately disciplines those lawyers responsible for any prosecutorial misconduct. And we hope that Moussaoui is properly punished without the advent of the death penalty and the federal prosecution more carefully prepares for future terrorism cases in order to avoid embarrassments like the one from this past week...
...College Professor Harry R. Lewis ’68. “Things that shock me don’t shock my children.”And Lewis is right. Students post everything on these websites: their sexual proclivities, illicit photographs, and perhaps most worrisome, their contact information.With the advent of blogging and continuously updated online news media, access to information is almost unparalleled. Even information that seems semi-private, such as profiles on Facebook—which are only accessible by certain portions of the public—can be taken out of context, re-posted, and let loose...
...worked creatively with colleagues to expand opportunities for study abroad and to spur closer student-faculty engagement -- including a dramatic rise in freshman seminars and the advent of faculty-led junior seminars in several of the largest concentrations...
...Lights (2004) might well have been subtitled I Am a Camera. A snapshot of 19th century Australian orphan Lucy Strange, who picks up the camera to make sense of her curious, off-kilter life in London and Bombay, the book limned the early history of photography while foreshadowing the advent of the moving image. Strange by name and nature, Sixty Lights risked alienating readers but ultimately dazzled with its precise image-making, from a gentleman's top hat set aflame in gaslight London, a dhoti-flapping Indian impaled by a shard of mirror glass, to the birth of Lucy...