Word: closers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shopping in two days. The time needed for course selection is thus reduced and the uncertainties of shopping period shortened. An extended add/drop deadline keeps open the door of choice, but more informed decisions can be made earlier. Condensed shopping, coupled with adequate time for add/drop changes, brings students closer to certainty without prematurely binding them to a schedule...
Speaking out in favor of the later weigh-in time, Weiss said, "The closer we get to competition now, the less weight will be cut. This should not be an overnight process...
...secret desire of every non-streaker is to be among all those naked people, to get a closer look at them, because to do so is to feel a sense of knowledge, power and arousal. But we streakers have transformed these petty appetites into a source of greater power. By becoming naked, we not only gain knowledge of each other's bodies; we give knowledge of ourselves to our comrades. We don't empower ourselves at each other's expense, but rather increase our collective exhilaration as we whoop and take off on our victory...
Coney says he hopes to spend a significant portion of his remaining years as a cook flipping burgers in a restaurant or a dining hall closer to the College--a wish shared by Mayer...
There are supposedly 6,500 undergraduates at Harvard College, but empirical observation suggest that the number is probably closer to 150. Like some kind of bad movie set where a few dozen people represent a crowd of hundreds by walking around the block again and again, our lives on this campus often appear to be populated by a very limited cast of characters. Some-how, the same ten people keep showing up everywhere...