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HouseSYSTEM is much more than an online flea market. It’s a mishmash of attractively implemented and well-intentioned services, each unfortunately underutilized. Among these, CriticalMass was heralded last year as a CUE-Guide replacement that would allow students to express their true feelings about their courses. Apparently most people feel apathetic: the most recent posts I could find dated back to last July. The site’s online message board, which would provide a virus-free and unrestricted alternative to House lists, also has yet to take off. Rounding out the services offered, the events calendar...
What is to be done? Aaron J. Greenspan ’05, creator of CriticalMass, an online alternative to the CUE guide that effectively channelled student discontent about a professor to the administration, suggests that specific student concerns will never be as effective as group concerns. “Because Harvard is a corporation,” he says in an e-mail, “it has access to lawyers, accountants, and risk minimization officers. If a cursory cost-benefit analysis yields the result that it will be worth the University’s effort to respond...
Though it did not mention either CriticalMass or houseSYSTEM by name, the e-mail from HASCS yesterday afternoon warned students of the possibility that their accounts might have been tampered with...
Greenspan consented and sent the College the list, but said he was uncomfortable with the idea of turning over any information pertaining to users of houseSYSTEM. Integrated in the portal are all users from the old CriticalMass website, a site Greenspan created last year to act as a venue for feedback about classes and professors. Greenspan worried that with enough information, a student might be linked to what he or she had said previously about a class or instructor...
Several students who received the notice from HASCS expressed concerns. The message made no specific reference to Greenspan, the SEC, CriticalMass or houseSYSTEM, but rather said simply that FAS had learned that their passwords might have been endangered...