Word: battat
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...acquiring the microwaves in all the dining halls, for summer storage, for the used book sale every spring and fall with Phillips Brooks House, for all the social events, for increasing the amount of lighting at night in the yard as well as in the Cambridge Common? David Battat '91 met with the Cambridge City Council a few years ago and took several council members around the Common one night to show them just how dark and unsafe it actually was, whereupon the city of Cambridge installed new lighting everywhere and razed all the bushes where muggers could hide...
...think the group tries to be as fair aspossible but obviously if the diversity of thegroup could be increased it could do a betterjob," said former finance chair David A. Battat...
...grants are absolutely 100 percentimportant and for three weeks you absolutely haveto come," Battat says...
...council secretary that fall, losing to David A. Battat '91, and then again in the spring, falling to Rauch. He also made bids to be vice chair of the academics committee both semesters, losing to former chair candidate Lori L. Outzs '91 in the fall and finally winning the position in the spring--over Rauch ("I'm one and two against Evan," he jokes...
...council members were so eager to bring a reggae artist to Harvard, given that another reggae concert--by Jimmy Cliff last year--met with mixed reviews. "I think Ziggy Marley is too expensive. The council can't afford to lose that much." Battat went on to demonstrate a keen knowledge of reggae music trivia. "there are a lot of problems [with Ziggy Marley]," Battat said. "He just fired his band a couple of months ago so things are a little shaky...