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...Lowell House and the other Harvard Houses? We have spent hundreds of hours of faculty, student, and staff time studying House expansion and renewal. Five or six years ago, we were looking at Allston. Houses, athletic fields, buildings were being imaginatively moved hither and yon to create a new campus. As the financial crisis began, that came to a halt. Then it was renewing the infrastructure of the Houses, particularly the river Houses like Lowell, still vastly overcrowded and deeply in need of full-scale renovation. That too had to come to a halt. We are, however, moving ahead...
...friend of mine who transferred to Yale as a sophomore was assigned to live in Old Campus, the equivalent of a second-year student here living in the Yard. At another school where I was accepted as a transfer student, all the literature I received welcomed me to the class of 2010—the freshman class that year, not the class I would actually be entering. Harvard treated its transfers both as transfers and as students older than freshmen. At the champagne brunch in Annenberg earlier this spring, acquaintances and casual friends asked what freshman entryway I had lived...
...four years I’ve been at Harvard, the Student Labor Action Movement has been one of the least popular groups on campus. To be sure, the group is dedicated to an admirable goal—higher wages for Harvard’s lowest-paid employees. But the dogmatism with which SLAM activists put forward their arguments has turned off many lefties who would otherwise be sympathetic to their cause. After all, SLAM has managed to alienate me, and I spent last summer working at a labor law firm whose head partner supports repealing the Reagan tax cuts...
...past couple weeks, however, I’ve come to realize that there is something to admire about SLAM’s leaders. On a campus where most people are too worried or too self-conscious to express their opinions freely, SLAM is a welcome reminder that some students do speak their minds without compunction...
...There was almost no debate, for example about who Lawrence H. Summer’s replacement as university president should have been, despite the fact that virtually all of the candidates were publicly known and had been profiled extensively in the media. No student, professor, or campus organization I know of openly supported a particular candidate, even though many had private opinions they would readily share. (I was barred from expressing my opinion as a reporter covering the search, so I will do so now: I favored Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan or Howard Hughes Medical Institute chief Thomas...