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...same time.” piggybackers’ delight As for dorm security, FM found that on a Saturday night, anyone looking like a respectable twenty-something college student could enter the unlocked Lowell House gates (past a guard, of course). From there, they could sneak by the card swiper (no Domna here) and enjoy a meal without looking out of place. Pia P. Dandiya ’09 never lets people “piggyback” into her dormitory who she doesn’t know, yet says seeing unfamiliar younger people in the building isn?...

Author: By Jessica M. Luna, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fires, Asbestos, and Rapists, Oh My! | 10/25/2006 | See Source »

...University Technology Security Officer Scott O. Bradner says that the PIN server is almost uncrackable. Even if an ingenious Cantabrigian were to break into the server, Harvard PINs are stored in a cryptographic hash and cannot be decrypted even by the system manager. And as for credit card numbers, one card issuer, Harvard University Employees Credit Union, guarantees that it stops all abnormal transactions for one card. There’s not much room for error here, says employee Jose M. Flores, unless someone fails to report purchases that he or she didn’t make. In sum, Harvard...

Author: By Sharon Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mail Theft, Credit Fraud and hacker@fas | 10/25/2006 | See Source »

...café specializes in “Syrian flatbread pizzas created specifically for this location,” according to Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) Director for Culinary Operations Martin T. Breslin. HUDS seems to have made a big hit: at the opening, one student turned in a comment card describing the pizzas as “GREAT! Fantastical even!” In addition to cheeseburgers and buffalo chicken flavored pizzas, the café offers late night snack fixes like salads, sandwiches, ice cream, and other desserts. Drink options range from assorted fruit smoothies and frozen latt?...

Author: By Zachary A. Pollinger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Syrian Style Flatbread, Making the Quad Suck Less | 10/25/2006 | See Source »

...experience, it is not something that occurs regularly,” he said. “This is really the first instance that I was aware of an actual grant being [potentially] lost over a visa or green card...

Author: By Alexa D West, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cancer Researcher Obtains FBI Clearance | 10/23/2006 | See Source »

...excited about becoming American. I am. Sort of. I mean think of the advantages: Jury duty! Voting in primaries! Dirty looks from other nationalities! But the truth is that right up until I became an American, I was an Extraordinary Alien (Really, that's what my green card was called.) I could work and live in America and not have to stand for the national anthem. Ah, those were the days. You got to go on the short line at the airport but you didn't have to own up to being the same nationality as Mark Foley. Plus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Very Unnatural Process of Naturalization | 10/23/2006 | See Source »

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