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However, one glitch in the process remains—instead of going to the box office like everyone else, students using SEF must visit a separate table at the door of the event to pick up their tickets. While trivial at first sight, this pickup procedure reinforces socioeconomic divisions on campus by singling out some of the poorest students at Harvard...
Luckily, the problem seems to be easily fixable. Students should be given the option to pick up their tickets at the box office in the Holyoke Center instead of at the SEF table. This way, the SEF ticket would be a private matter. Students would simply go to the box office, display their SEF credentials, and receive their ticket. At the door of the actual event, they would be welcomed in just like everyone else...
...York Times, the Holiest of Dailies. Letter writing has gone the way of the radio. What was, until recently, the modus operandi for distant artistic and scholarly discourse is now mostly used by children sending letters to Santa. The mailbox has become the phone bill or catalogue box. Now that we have a multitude of online communication outlets, what will happen to the love letter (thank you “Sex and the City Movie”)? Now that we have Evite and Paperless Post, what will happen to attractive handwriting? Maybe someday we can read (from our Kindles...
...They put us in this box, and we'll race like this until we kill somebody, and then they'll change it.' CARL EDWARDS, race-car driver, criticizing NASCAR for the design of the Talladega Superspeedway, after his car wrecked during the last lap of the Sprint Cup, injuring eight...
...filing drawers, and the walls are completely hidden by the files, except for a small counter—which had to be cut in half last year to make room for still more files—used for alphabetizing and organizing. On top of the cabinets lie more boxes filled with overflow applications.The sheer number of applications processed by the office cannot be fully understood until one is in the file room, according to Anderson. “Every drawer gets so full that you can’t put anything in it,” he explains...