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Furthermore, numbers don't determine social interactions: People who want to be insular can be just as insular in a group of eight or 16, and those who want to meet new friends in their houses won't be prevented by a few extra blockmates. Large blocking groups might even improve House community and facilitate new friendships since students are more likely to attend House events with a group of friends...
There is also good reason to think that eight is a bad size for a blocking group. There are suites of more than eight people in many houses. Some students do in fact have close friendship groups of more than eight people, and the lower limit would make the blocking process even more difficult for first-years. Such a low limit also makes it more difficult for mixed-gender blocking groups, which must already divide up into rooming groups...
...blocking group of one?--individual suffering would clearly outweigh whatever speculative benefits are achieved by forcing students to find new friends. Are blocking groups of 10 or 12 such great obstructions to House community that they must be disbanded, regardless of the resulting inconveniences to individual students? Could eight actually be too many...
Judging by the first eight minutes of Saturday's opener against Columbia, the Harvard football team looked on its way to reliving last year's 24-0 nightmare loss...
...scientist David Lewis? The agency has come under fire for harassing its scientists who question regulations. Now the intimidation may have spread. "I must be onto something, or he wouldn't be coming at me like this," says California dairy farmer and anti-sludger Beswick, who got eight letters from Rubin, one accompanied by a note: "Jane: Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...