Word: ed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Philos, the first attempt at a coed alternative to final clubs, is faltering, but, with luck, may find its legs. And another co-ed group is in the formative stages, having already solicited the aid of Dean Epps in finding a place to meet. Such groups and the discussion they generate will be a driving force in the increasing issuehood of undergraduate social life, but other events will contribute as well. The new Massachusetts alcohol laws are so strict that Project ADD, the alcohol and drug abuse peer counselors, have been prevented from talking to first-year proctor groups. Backlash...
...often in a paternalistic effort to manage their lives. Sometimes, the University has good reason: mandatory meetings for first-years to get to know their proctors, placement tests for required courses, making sure that dorm rooms violate no state health codes. This time, in the debate over co-ed rooming at Adams House, the University should let students mind their own business...
When some Adams House residents, with the approval of an outgoing senior tutor, turned their rooms into a co-ed suite, they assumed that the College would stand back and let these adults do as they chose...
Propokow turned to the Handbook for Students for justification. The Handbook states that Harvard will allow co-ed rooms when "the configuration of space ensures a degree of privacy." This translates into a number of picayune details, to be determined by the master: working bedroom door locks, perhaps, or separate bathrooms. Another co-ed rooming group in Adams, one with a bathroom for each gender, has been left alone. These particular rooming groups, who were aided by Master Robert Kiely, might get away with paying for the requisite changes and continuing to live together...
Regardless of the outcome, Propokow--and other College administrators--should rethink their aversion to co-ed rooms. Harvard has no parietal rules. Students now have the freedom to sleep wherever they choose, and can house any guests they wish. The privacy the administration seems so concerned about is violated every day, all across campus...