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...year, the dean’s office, thanks largely to Campus Life Fellow Justin H. Haan ’05, sprinkled its funding, via the Student Activities Fund and logistical expertise, around various events over the course of the year, including pub nights in Loker Commons, the Pub Night Commission??s and CLC’s Harvard-Yale pep rally, dodgeball tournaments, and the Junior Class Events Commission??s “Junior Class Does Junior High” dance. Most notably, the office found the magic formula for a successful Harvard State Fair...
...Cambridge Licensing Commission??s (CLC) reasoning behind its perennial refusal to allow Harvard Square nightlife to exist by forcing all restaurants and bars to shut down at 2 a.m. could not be more nonsensical. For example, the CLC claims that that noise from late-night eateries, such as Felipe’s Taqueria (which faced penalties last fall for selling burritos a few minutes past 2 a.m.), would be disruptive to Cambridge residents. Most of the Square’s restaurants and bars, however, are in non-residential areas. Clearly, the city could grant these restaurants later hours...
...first calls for a review of the License Commission??s cap policy, which limits the number of liquor licenses that can be issued, and for recommendations from City Manager Robert W. Healy as to how the policy might be changed...
...better able to assess the proficiency of both colleges and students. Furthermore, the commission hopes that by tracking individuals it will be able to learn more about demographic trends among college students. But this proposal of a database is not well-founded. While we endorse another of the commission??s ideas—a ranking system of U.S. colleges—the prospect of a student database raises serious concerns...
...commission??s proposal to create a more comprehensive system of college rankings, however, is a worthy one. Currently, the major college rankings—U.S. News and World Reports and the Princeton Review—only rank the top few hundred schools. The creation of more a comprehensive ranking system would serve students across the spectrum of academic ability. In particular, students who are not applying to top-tier schools would be given tools to be better gauge which colleges will serve them best...