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...additional 12 spots have been set aside for Yale’s residential colleges, though one has already said it will not be attending the tailgate.“The Harvard-Yale game is not necessarily where it’s at anymore,” said Yale College Council Secretary Zach P. Marks. Marks said the deadline for tailgate applications has been extended for one week and that they “have to be optimistic” that some groups will apply in the additional time. In the meantime, Yalies are planning events for this weekend?...
Cambridge residents at last night’s City Council meeting had one word for leaf blowers: leave.Three speakers at the session complained about the nettlesome noise, environmental damage, and potential health consequences caused by the blowers. And at the meeting, City Manager Robert W. Healy announced the creation of a task force to investigate the possibility of a city-wide ban.But Healy’s announcement doesn’t mean the controversy is likely to blow over.The task force includes four Cambridge residents as well as representatives from an equipment manufacturer, a landscaping firm, relevant city departments...
...many people came to the Undergraduate Council (UC)-funded party in Cabot N-33 this weekend. Maybe it was because the door was relabeled “N-32.” Maybe it was because the party was “advertised” at the end of a three page “list of possible great things to do tonight,” which included everything from a Rembrandt docent tour at a museum to an all-day seminar on exports in Boston (which was over by the time the e-mail was sent). Or maybe...
...explain why fluid dynamics should be included in the Core. Possibly this is the key piece of evidence for understanding why the grass seems so much greener in Eliot. Perchance this can serve as the metaphoric link to arguing that, despite all the hours it spends debating, the Undergraduate Council doesn’t deal with crap. Or yet this could imply that the newly-installed green toilets have consequences of a darker color. (Sure, facilities maintenace says that it was only a clogged drain that caused the backup of green muck. We wonder if their investigation included...
...Undergraduate Council voted unanimously last night to call upon the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) to repeal the tax it instituted this year on all donations to the Harvard Gift Fund. Money given to the tax-deductible gift fund generally comes from alumni and passes to the designated student groups. The FAS tax will start at 5 percent this year and increase to 15 in three years. FAS currently taxes donations to the gift fund at a rate under 2 percent, according to UC Student Affairs Committee Chair Ryan A. Petersen ’08, a sponsor of last...