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...must have been during one of my many exam period MAC visits that I first spotted it. "Hey Harvard Girls" screamed a sign on one of the weight room bulletin boards, "Anyone Interested in Women's Wrestling...
...order to become a contestant on Jeopardy!, candidates must pass a written exam. Then, "they play a mock Jeopardy! game and participate in a brief interview," Laine T. Sutten, spokesperson for Jeopardy! told The Crimson in December...
...Registrar characterized as "absolutely typical," Harvard students were treated to a 1998 intersession spanning from Friday afternoon on Jan. 23 to Wednesday, Jan. 28. While the Registrar may boast that this constitutes a "five day break," a glance at a calendar reveals that any student with an exam on Jan. 23 can count the days off on two fingers. Those students lucky enough to finish exams early were rewarded with a vacation. But why should vacation time be a matter of luck...
Sometime during exam period, I received an e-mail from a Harvard student whom I had never met. "The main reason I voted for you," it read, "was because of your promise to work to get rid of the grade gap. I was wondering whether you had made any progress." Since that time, I have received a handful of similar e-mails--questions about the possibility of opening the MAC earlier, a few rants about dining services inflexibility, a suggestion that keycard access be the top priority. All referred to a single issue raised during the campaign...
...leave early. We stand in doorways, trying to ignore the noise in the hall. We crouch on the floor and are stepped on. We impose on each other to borrow syllabi. We fill out index cards and lottery forms, read and re-read CUE guide ratings, cross-check exam and paper dates. We arrive 11 a.m. classes at 11:20 to find students, TFs and professor all gone...