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...Someone entering any Wigg entry, for example, could quickly descend to the basement and by moving through the basement gain immediate access to a whole series of entries occupied by nearly 200 students,” she writes in an e-mail...

Author: By Margaret W. Ho, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 24-Hour Key Access Pushed | 3/16/2004 | See Source »

Marks and Shub hope to follow up their conversation with the inauguration of a Harvard-MIT climbing face off, either at MIT or at Harvard. Both the Longwood Gym at Harvard Medical School and the wall in the basement of Claverly Hall are open throughout the year to members...

Author: By Adam C. Estes, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Climb High at MIT Competition | 3/15/2004 | See Source »

...snatched up by the scruff of my neck and slammed against a wall, I was generally not subjected to physical violence. The mafia employ not physical, but psychological warfare to marginalize targets while solidifying the preeminence of their group—in my case Albanian—in the basement. Baseless complaints to a sympathetic boss about the less-senior Columbian, idle gossip spread through the tenant population about the Canadian, active disparagement of the Irish-American—these are the tommy guns in the Doorman Mafia’s violin cases...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Foot in the Door | 3/11/2004 | See Source »

After finishing tasks originally earmarked for someone else, it was back to reading in the basement, where I faced the constant struggle to keep the book from being tossed in a cobwebbed corner, or torn in half— the doorman mafia version of a horse’s head on the pillow beside...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Foot in the Door | 3/11/2004 | See Source »

...easy. Once you’re on the inside, no matter how averse you are to its sordid characters and no matter how badly you want to keep yourself from going back, chances are you’ll find yourself trudging down those pale gray stairs, into the basement and the world that the upstairs people just don?...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Foot in the Door | 3/11/2004 | See Source »

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