Word: dorme
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...place to turn. After five years of satisfying the late-night cravings of the Boston area college community, Five Star Cookie Company has added Harvard to its delivery route. Warm, freshly baked cookies, with milk and ice cream on the side, can be delivered to every Harvard student's dorm room door. The menu includes four flavors of hot cookies--chocolate chunk, double fudge, peanut butter cup and oatmeal raisin--eight flavors of tasty Ben and Jerry's ice cream and cold, refreshing milk that washes it all down. 16 cookies for $14, 32 cookies for $24 and a giant...
...That's preposterous. Most people in my dorm haven't even started looking for a summer...
Like most freshmen at the University of Michigan, Peter Romer-Friedman came to campus wide-eyed and full of school spirit. After arriving in the fall of 1997, he decorated his dorm room with posters of his school teams, cheered on the Wolverines at the Rose Bowl and proudly outfitted himself in Michigan sweatshirts and caps. Then last summer, during an internship with the AFL-CIO, he started to hear how Michigan and other colleges get their sportswear--by employing licensing companies that use overseas factories where garment workers toil long hours, often for pennies...
While I expect that most Harvard students have experienced firsthand the complexities involved in such administrative decisions as admissions and dorm assignments for an extraordinarily diverse student body, I doubt that many have considered the range of factors that must inform decisions about compensation for Harvard's employees. Harvard employs more than 14,000 individuals to perform an enormous range of tasks. They work for different parts of the University and they live in cities and towns throughout the Boston area, in other parts of the country and in other parts of the world. In any given week, there...
...twentieth-century Harvard. Student activists ever since then have had to contend with implicit, sometimes unfair, comparisions to Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) at University Hall.The University remembers 1969, too: anyone who lives in a building constructed after the takeover can sleep soundly at night in a riotproof dorm...