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...like an ordeal.” Gutman Library worker and Divinity School student Natalie G. Broadnax lives in Porter Square and said she completely avoids walking through the Common. “If I’m walking to Porter Square, I don’t walk through the Common??it’s unsettling,” she said. “It’s bothersome at night to walk around.” Broadnax said she wishes that more of the gates to nearby Harvard Yard would remain unlocked at night...
...second, but late bedtimes have been the bane of my existence since freshmen year. And certainly this humble, yet irritable and reactionary columnist is not the only one confounded by this difficulty.Trucking along until the wee hours is one of the few things we students have in common??from pro-18th Amendment teetotalers to wild frat boys. Ten at night to two in the morning is party/study/deep conversation time. Phoning anyone before noon is considered rude because it may interrupt prime bedtime hours. We complain that 10 a.m. classes are too early. And many would gladly give...
This is an especially difficult—and common??predicament, and one that I have also had to contemplate during my time at Harvard. The friends that shared our days of Trapper Keepers and bad haircuts are irreplaceable, and so it can be hard to cope with the reality that their place in your life is changing...
...there really is something fundamentally different about people who do not look the same, which is simply not true. By concentrating on what superficially separates us—like skin color or where our ancestors came from—instead of the many more things that we have in common??like our impressive intellects, our uniquely human emotions, and the ambition and drive that got us all here—the Harvard Foundation exacerbates the already intractable problem of self-segregation...
...official liaison to the City of Cambridge, but the sluggish pace of the negotiations only underlines the need for a directly-elected Harvard affiliate with governmental power. A year after the first in a string of sexual assaults, Harvard finally agreed to provide funds for three callboxes on the Common??money the city seems to have accepted grudgingly. (Cambridge’s historical commission expressed concern about the effect of the callboxes on the aesthetic quality of the Common. As the UC’s meeting minutes from February 26 derisively note, the commission wanted the callboxes...