Word: cabot
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While some of the Houses have stuck with the tried and true this holiday season—with dining halls adorned in colored lights, tinsel, wreaths, and ribbons—Cabot House has outdone them all with a nine-foot aluminum pole. The unadorned pole is one of the many trappings of the secular holiday Festivus, popularized by the sitcom “Seinfeld” during a 1997 episode entitled “The Strike.” Frank Costanza, father of the recurring character George Costanza, claims to have invented the holiday as a protest against the commercialization...
...planning process, Petrich said. Elections for the new board begin today and Petrich said that it will benefit from not having its term interrupted. But some houses have seen a dearth of applicants. As of the original application deadline of midnight Friday, no one had declared candidacy from Adams, Cabot, Dunster, or Leverett. As a result, the CEB decided to extend the deadline another 24 hours, according to Drake. All houses except for Leverett now have candidates running, Drake said, adding that he thought the initial lack of candidates indicated poor communication, and not lack of interest...
...Staff V ’10, who inspected two parties Saturday night. “It is a trial period,” he said. “We’ll see how it goes in the next few weeks.” Finance Committee member and Cabot House UC representative Vivien G. Wu ’08 said that there is no set protocol to notify hosts that their party will undergo inspection. Hosts could easily check UC open or others might be notified ahead of time by the investigators themselves, she said. Staff said that...
...Mendy ’09 is a history concentrator in Cabot House...
Always the unconventional presidential candidate, Brian S. Gillis ’07-’08, combined his election party with the bi-weekly Cabot House Stein Club...