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...hour before Basement Jaxx were scheduled to drop a sonic bomb of seismic proportions on the Boston massive, I was finding such a thing increasingly unlikely. The atmosphere was a let-down??instead of a noisy club filling to capacity, I found several handfuls of bored people idly listening to the horrid strain of Latin-lite fusion muzak filtering through the sound system. It was another half hour before the lights finally dimmed...
...rope, then wrap more rope around those bindings. The friction in the ropes keeps anything from slipping. I tell people, ‘Friction keeps me sleeping soundly at night’,” he explains. And the ropes do not budge. When in the “down?? position the bed frame itself rests on the wooden structure. But when up, the frame and mattress are counter weighted by four two-pound cement blocks. It’s incredibly sturdy. “I’m confident that it could hold four to five people...
...successful campus community is organic; its chief virtue lies in the type of spontaneous student interaction that cannot be mandated through new policies or realized through suggestions to “slow down?? and enjoy the Harvard experience. More than anything else, students need space to see each other and the opportunities for community building that come along with...
...community is something with which Harvard has struggled, especially at the undergraduate level. Students and administrators alike have decried the lack of community, the latter group encouraging us to “slow down?? and form bonds with each other. Yet simple remonstrations have failed, so it is time to look again at how Harvard can support a strong undergraduate community, what has worked and what needs work. We will be using this space this week to explore ways that we can improve the undergraduate community at Harvard, the way that collaboration between students and administrators can help...
Sound like a pipe dream? Perhaps. But I think it’s time for the administration to “slow down?? and consider what students really need...