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...club has predicted that the keg ban will cause Harvard’s already pathetic student attendance at football games to drop even more. With this poorly-conceived policy, the administration threatens to ruin one of the remaining vestiges of undergraduate social life. While the administration may be blind to the plight of undergraduates seeking fun, perhaps they will react to the decreased alumni attendance and subsequent drop in giving that will result from the keg ban. In a year where the endowment is suffering losses, can the administration afford to make the alumni unhappy...
...here lies the true appeal of the Strokes: Given a twist of fate, a college rejection, or a lucky break, they could be you, or you could be them. Red-carpet celebrity as austere diversion is passé—Blind Date, American Idol or Becoming have brought fame beyond the realm of fantasy to remote possibility for millions. While Casablancas and company are certainly too talented to be compared to the likes of Justin Guarini, their earthly manner suggests that there is a dangerous arbitrariness to who stands in front of a screaming arena, and who is destined...
...first-years, who have long born the brunt of Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley “Ibby” Nathans’ delight in the vigorous enforcement of College policies. But upperclassmen had come to expect a certain leeway—that the college would turn a blind eye. There were always room inspections, of course, but they were few and far between, and House superintendents didn’t look in closets or under blankets. And there were warnings, and second chances, and if a student was particularly slow on the draw, maybe even third and fourth chances...
...there were such a thing as an interstellar vision exam, humans would qualify as legally blind. That?s because all we can see is ordinary, visible light. But stars and galaxies shine with all sorts of other radiation as well. For their work in probing these otherwise invisible signals from space Raymond Davis, 87 of the University of Pennsylvania; Masatoshi Koshiba, 76, of the University of Tokyo; and the Italian-born U.S. citizen Riccardo Giacconi, 71, of Associated Universities Inc. in Washington, D.C, each got a share of the Nobel prize in Physics announced in Stockholm Tuesday...
...proud that we have the principle of need-blind financial aid, but I think that it's an aspiration we have throughout the University, not just in the College," he said...