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...violate students’ privacy. “They’re very visible cameras,” he said. “I don’t want the impression that Big Brother is watching. We’re not creeping in people’s dorm rooms...
...ffice] would give us a grant for freshman-wide events,” she said. Although there will be half as many study breaks, proctors will continue to receive the same study break funds, and groups of 10 Fellows will receive additional funding for throwing a dorm-wide event once a month.“It’s so amazing,” said Kate Cosgrove ’07. “It’s so hard to get funding for most activities.”Associate Dean of Advising Programs Monique Rinere wrote...
Litigious parents are also to blame for the tough line. After Elizabeth Shin died in 2000 in a dorm-room fire at M.I.T. within hours of threatening to kill herself, the sophomore's parents filed a $27 million lawsuit against her psychiatrists, as well as her house master and a dean of student life, for failing to take adequate precautions. (They had scheduled an appointment to see her the following day.) When a judge last year refused to throw out the suit, alarm bells went off in administrative offices across the country. "To hold a university liable for simply trying...
...interesting week for Cohen and the rest of the Crimson’s players, especially the seniors.Saturday’s loss to Dartmouth was the expected end to their careers for pretty much everyone—except the selection committee.“I was in my dorm, getting ready to study for finals and go about life as a student,” Cohen said with a laugh. “A guy who’d graduated said, ‘you guys made the playoffs.’ So I called my brother and he said...
...from the Radcliffe Union. But in 1990, more than 1,000 students petitioned for a College-sponsored center, arguing that the Quad space was too small and too far from Harvard Yard. Leaders of campus women’s groups called for a three-room center in a Yard dorm basement in 2000. And in 2004, the Radcliffe Union called for a center inside Hilles Library. This past September, College officials made their first public endorsement for building the Women’s Center. By December, the College was advertising for a center director. “Students have kept...