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...idea was remarkably simple: have the College’s 12 House Committees (HoCos) cooperate to plan large campus-wide parties in House common spaces on the Thursday and Friday evenings before the Harvard-Yale game. By focusing the student body’s party-throwing energies on localized events??in the River on Thursday night, and in the Quad on Friday—the weekend’s dynamic could be one of communal celebration, involving the entire College, rather than of division, inherent in the smattering of smaller parties that traditionally takes place in the nights...
Unfortunately, the new “campus-wide events?? didn’t turn out so well. The UC’s Campus Life Committee (CLC), flush with cash, petered it away on poorly planned and expensive events, culminating in a $30,000 cancellation fee for last fall’s Wyclef Jean (non-)concert. After that debacle, the Council effectively un-funded the CLC, divvying up some of what was left of its $100,000 budget among House Committees (HoCos) and party funds. Then the UC lopped off the CLC and left campus-wide social programming...
...this tacit standard of acceptable length both endows Oliver Stone’s recent film “World Trade Center” with tremendous emotional force and casts it as an excruciating exercise in emotional and sensory masochism. The film depicts the “true life events?? of Port Authority Police officers John McLoughlin (Nicolas Cage) and Will Jimeno (Michael Peña). Their 24-hour struggle to survive while trapped under tons of rock and rubble contains too many screams, tears, and fireballs to feel genuine.The real drama develops from the grief experienced...
...Committee (SAC). Each house or “yard” (as the four subdivisions of the freshman class are known) elects two representatives, and the top vote-getter gets their choice of committee. Those of you who remember the UC’s attempts at planning campus-wide events??the infamous $16,000 Springfest 2005 afterparty, which drew only 150 people, and the Havana on the Harbor boat cruise for which only 50 of 375 tickets were sold come to mind—can breathe easy. The Campus Life Committee that planned all those failures was jettisoned...
Since the film is, according to the production notes, “based on the true life events?? of these men, it’s hard to say what actually happened and what’s Hollywood fiction, but the moment fireballs go whizzing past Jimeno’s face (against gravity, no less), I begin to wonder how many liberties Berloff took with her script...