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...blown away,” Kolenik says. “I didn’t know we needed this level of education. I asked the girl who else was in her position, and told her and anyone else who wanted to come to meet me in the basement of the Harvard Club the next day.” Thirty-eight workers joined the fledgling program. According to Kolenik, by the second semester, the employees were reading the notes left by patrons without the need for a translator, filling requests for food in the restaurant without confusion and staying in hotel...
These amusements were displayed in a wild splash of color last Thursday evening, when over 70 Adams residents gathered to leave their mark on the walls of their basement. The winding underground tunnels have displayed colorful murals and wall-paintings—full of pop culture references, sarcastic quips and Zen-like koans—before the randomization of Houses, when Adams was a mecca for artists...
...bizarre tradition it is. Lauren E. “Orly” Kivett-Ripmaster ’03 calls the 130 basement murals “a bunch of eclectic quotes and artwork that epitomize Adams House...
...Although the murals change a few at a time from year-to-year as students paint over the oldest ones, this year’s painting party was the first major collaborative effort to give the entire basement a face-lift...
Another group of friends who work for the campus counseling group Room 13 devised a more practical plan: they decided to paint a permanent advertisement on the basement walls...