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...Dartboard would like to commend the University Housing Office for their professional handling of the First-Year lottery results. As anxious residents of Thayer Hall waited patiently for word of their randomized fate, a considerate Housing Officer, charged with hand-delivering the envelopes containing the lottery results, saw fit to instead deposit them in a lovely pile in front of the dorm elevator. There the abandoned envelopes sat as the morning wore on and as rising anticipation ate away at the souls of dorm inhabitants...
...commend the University's recent action to improve safety in Harvard Yard. With the addition of 39 lights in the vicinity of the Yard, late night walks back from Tommy's or the Science Center will be made a little safer. The eight new security phones, the most obvious of which is located just inside Johnston Gate, will allow students to call for emergency help or just summon the shuttle more easily...
...commend John for his courage for being at a university overly frightened by something as dramatic as this," Hancock said. "I don't think any institution of organization is being very wise to oppose the serious investigation of this phenomenon...
...even as we commend Epps for taking on the final clubs, we have some concerns about the nature of his letter. First, our enthusiasm for the College's activism on the issue is tinged by the fear that its commitment may be one of more rhetoric than substance. Indeed, if the incidents Epps cites in his letter are more than the stuff of unfounded allegations, we must wonder whether the College has followed up on them, taking the kind of disciplinary action which might spur the clubs to initiate reforms; we urge Harvard not to cave to the whims...
...until now, Crimson coverage of the Democrats has been fair and accurate, and I commend the editors and reporters for exercising good judgment in the past. If anything has been snuffed out of existence, it is this good judgment. I hope that it will reappear in the near future. --Eric S. Olney '98, president, Harvard-Radcliffe College Democrats