Word: dorms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...student and faculty member with their own computer, Harvard has taken the laissez-faire approach, offering cut-rate deals and a host of options, but no mandatory purchasing plan. And the result, to the surprise of virtually no one, is that personal computers have appeared in places ranging from dorm rooms to the Classics Department...
...year-old building to construct 50 units of housing, but has encountered widespread opposition from the neighborhood. What really scares area residents about the project is the pattern of University expansion across their neighborhood's landscape--from Peabody Terrace to Leverett House and from Mather House to this new dorm. Unfortunately, Harvard officials have only bowed to community pressure in this case when city laws have forced them...
...closest thing Harvard has to a campus pub is the two-year-old Picadilly Filly (123 Mt. Auburn St.). Crowded, not too large and not too bright, you'll find more people you know in this inexpensive pickup joint than you'll find in your dorm. If, on the other hand, you prefer a place that makes Jiffypop popcorn while you fill up with cheap beer at the bar, then visit the Bow and Arrow (Bow St. next to Baskin Robbins). On Wednesday nights, you'll find most of the Harvard undergraduate population here, and you can you drink...
...process becomes more subjective, almost artistic. "It's a very handcrafted process with a lot of individual judgement involved," says Associate Dean of Freshmen Susan W. Lewis. The goal of the project is to achieve Harvard's motto, "diversity," without creating a situation that would create havoc inside the dorm room come September, officials...
...officials say that except for medical excuses, very few requests come in for room changes. In fact, Harvard stresses that freshmen learn to work out dorm room squabbles on their own, Lewis says...