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Once upon a time, in the late, late 1960s, this campus was a different place. Radcliffe women carried suitcases of prim skirts and sweaters into their North House rooms on move-in day. Harvard men wore ties to dinner. Separated by the stretch of land from the Quadrangle to the...
Men even had to pass a literal gauntlet in the Quad: the infamous bells desk. North House had only one entrance, one staircase, and one elevator, and the bells desk guarded them all. Barbara’s weekly stint at the desk, where she controlled the switchboard and single phone...
In 1970, students turned that whole system—the parietal rules, bells desks, and dating itself upside down.
But with the support of the student majority and the senior sisters—the Radcliffe term for residential tutors—the change went through. Though the bells desk was still in place, its only remaining function was symbolic. Girls would send guys straight up without buzzing. Men started...
services company, says it broke no rules, but it's under investigation by German prosecutors and British regulators, and the company has put the traders involved on leave of absence. Last week European Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet called for a "thorough" inquiry, while newspapers published internal memos that...