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...Tornado that hit Greensburg on May 4 took its time, rolling up Main Street like it was on a Sunday stroll to church. Ron Shank, owner of the Kansas town's General Motors dealership, hid with his wife beneath a quilt in their basement, but they heard the storm rip their home from its foundations. Marvin George, a pastor at the Baptist church, took shelter in his closet. "We just knelt and prayed," he says. "I wasn't scared until the next morning, when I saw the carnage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Greensburg | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

Barrios was a volunteer at the shelter—then known as “UniLu” for its location in the basement of the University Lutheran Church—beginning his freshman year at Harvard. He said that late nights collecting food donations from local restaurants and buying pizza from Pinnochio’s for the shelter’s guests inspired his career in public service...

Author: By Cora K. Currier, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Square Shelter Celebrates 25th Birthday | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

...renowned director Peter M. Sellars ’80 made visionary use of the Adams House Pool, now a common venue for Harvard theater. Sellars’ production is just one example of the experimental, anti-establishment creative work that has profited from the use of house facilities. Basement darkrooms and dance facilities give students the opportunity to make art outside of established venues such as Sanders Theater or the Carpenter Center.But while these facilities are advertised as being open to all, some have gone unused in recent years, and relatively few students know of their existence.A few may soon...

Author: By Eric W. Lin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Finding Rooms for Art | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...students to live in—deteriorates? Additional evidence can be found by comparing Harvard’s undergraduate housing to other universities. A nearby, far lesser institution (Yale) is engaged in a multimillion dollar project to renovate undergraduate housing. While Harvard students worry about sewage in the basements, Yale students worry about which college will be closed next year for a $70 million face-lift. Of course, Harvard could afford a similar program given that its endowment is 50% larger than Yale’s, but doing so would remove the valuable life lesson Harvard is trying to teach...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Building Character, Not Houses | 2/25/2008 | See Source »

Adams House has had a swimming pool since 1907, but for a few hours last night, Winthrop House got one too. Backed-up drains and rainfall inundated the House’s dining hall, gym, basement, and several entryways with sewage, forcing some students to flee to other Houses for dinner. Winthrop House Master Stephen P. Rosen ’74 said last night that 15 people, including a crew from the Harvard Emergency Operations Center, would have the flood cleaned up by 3 a.m. this morning, in time to open for breakfast. According to Rosen, crumbling infrastructure in Winthrop...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Winthrop Wages War With Waves | 2/14/2008 | See Source »

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