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...decision by Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 means that House Masters, who approved a trial extension Feb. 5, can begin implementing the later party curfew as early as this weekend...
Cabot, Pforzheimer, Kirkland, Lowell and Eliot houses will allow parties to run until 2 a.m. beginning this weekend, while Currier, Winthrop, Adams and Quincy will implement the curfew at a later date. Officials from the other three Houses could not be reached for comment last night...
First-years enjoy post-midnight revelry more than anyone else. Released from the 8 a.m. wakeup time of their high school years, the typical first-year is like a kid in a candy store. He or she has no curfew, dozens of new best friends, and of course, there’s no teacher calling attendance in the morning. To capture the freshness and vigor of this short-lived epoch in a Harvard life, FM visited with a typical entryway that, according to residents, never sleeps...
With stuffy Cantabrigian neighbors and an administration all too happy to serve in loco parentis, Harvard hardly seems like a rock-and-roll-all-night kinda place—even as the powers that be consider extending party hours, late nighters can hope for a 2 a.m. curfew at best. But as FM knows particularly well, looks can be deceiving: Harvard’s around-the-clock culture goes way beyond old fashioned keggers and study sessions. We figured Harvard students find plenty of worthier—and quirkier—occupations for their nighttime hours...
Perhaps the strongest argument for an extension is simply that it would greatly benefit students while imposing only a minimal additional burden on the rest of the community. Adding another hour to the curfew will certainly not increase loitering in the neighborhood, since students will have a place to be for more of their waking hours. Moreover, as was mentioned at a recent meeting of the Committee on House Life (CHL), House security guards currently leave at 12:45 a.m., meaning that the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD)—whose numbers do not change between...