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...Harvard’s new House system, the SCR should be more integrated into undergraduate life. Students should be explicitly introduced to the SCR when they join a House in March of their freshman year. The concept of an SCR should be explained to them, and resources (whether physical or electronic) should be provided to them in order to help them build lasting relationships with House tutors and sponsored academics...
...worthy corner of our private existence. We blog, we post our entire lives on Facebook or Myspace, we whine about personal problems on Twitter, and we can forward a personal email to anyone we want in a second. We are our own paparazzi, and we have trampled the entire concept of privacy. We don’t only willingly reveal ourselves, but we have also come to expect it and desire it of others.This voyeuristic desire cannot help but influence our attitudes towards the returning of war dead. Do we really have the right to a moment that...
...Neil Young wants to release a concept album about eco-friendly cars, he sure as hell will—and over 40 years of artistic excellence means that people will listen, regardless of its merits. “Fork in the Road,” although appreciable for its grungy, hard-rocking feel and often hilarious, sometimes thought provoking lyrics, leaves the listener feeling unnoticed as Young continues to write songs that seem to serve the sole purpose of amusing himself for the moment. Ever the “Godfather of Grunge,” Neil Young incorporates...
From Adams to Winthrop, Mather to the Quad, it has been a fixture of the College’s House system, a concept older than the 12 upperclassmen Houses themselves. But some Harvard administrators say that after a history spanning two centuries and an ocean, the Senior Common Room—an idea originally conceived at British universities—is in need of an extensive reevaluation.According to the Report on Harvard House Renewal, which College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds released to the public last Tuesday, the SCR is an “outdated” and disconnected component...
...press is upset that the car companies will not put on their usual splendid displays at the New York International Auto Show. There will not be a big collection of V8 thunder cruisers, women in bikinis to demonstrate the latest models, and wild concept cars which are inordinately attractive but will never be built...