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...possession that could be of even tangential use during that summer—everything, that is, that doesn’t go into storage. Currently, Harvard students who live more than 100 miles away are allowed to leave six boxes of belongings and some oversized furniture items in the basement of their Houses during the summer for retrieval at the start of the next term. Each year, they are reminded that the items are not insured by the College, and that they are storing at their own risk. Yet so many students have taken advantage of this option that...
Charging students for leaving their items in an uninsured basement seems unfair at best and greedy at worst. There would be no actual improvement in storage service, and items would be just as susceptible to theft as they are now. The proposal to increase the eligibility from 100 miles to 200 miles is similarly unfair. Driving one’s belongings to a nearby suburb in two trips during the day is very different from having to make the four-hour trip all the way to New York or having to bear the expense of hiring a van. This...
Residents in Eliot entryway D may think they have members of Bring in da Noise, Bring in da Funk dancing in their basement...
...We’re not advocating a keg in a small basement, but rather cocktails on the Common or wine at the MFA,” Chavez says...
Instead, says Keiper, convergence is happening elsewhere, in the form of ubiquitous computing. Every appliance is loaded with chips, and each machine can be linked to a central controller. There is a revolution going on behind the walls and in the basement. A whole new style of bundled multipurpose wiring, called structured wiring, is worming its way through the walls, with the capacity to handle cable, audio, satellite, phone and computer traffic. In the basement, computer servers (think of them as home mainframes) are sharing space with furnaces, providing network hookups to every room. Says Gottsegen: "We've seen...