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...addition, Special Assistant to the Dean for Social Programming Zachary A Corker ’04 told the committee that he was working on forming sophomore and junior class social committees similar in format to the First-Year Social Committee...
...report released in May, the Faculty presentation last week confirmed that many of our primary concerns about Allston planning are at least being addressed. Harvard has an opportunity to reinvent its modern undergraduate life with a contiguous and balanced campus; within reach is the elimination of weepy, freshly assigned first-year blocking groups sulking their way to Annenberg to grudgingly claim their Quad House t-shirts. Accordingly, we’re glad to see that plans currently include a minimum of two to three Houses built across the river—a replacement for the Quad Houses—with...
...receive official recognition as an affiliate of Harvard, the organization must first wait for the approval of the Office of Student Activities. To be formally acknowledged, a club must submit a constitution, a complete list of officers and members, and endorsements from two faculty advisers. All clubs must have at least ten undergraduate members. The faculty sponsors of the Celtic Club include Lindsay Page, a first-year proctor in Lionel Hall, and Tomas O’Cathasaigh, Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies, who is also director of graduate studies in the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures...
...having the band play some private carrier functions. I haven’t been more shocked with indie rock since, well, The O.C., and I haven’t been more shocked with our friendly and oft-disgruntled postal staff since I called home as a first-year to find that my father had dissolved his business and become a carrier. I can only imagine how Gibbard and Tamborello will modify their sound to suit their audience of small business owners and penpals, but I have to think that some DIY compromise is going to be made...
...this vein that we reiterate our opposition to the Curricular Review committee’s recommendation that first-year entryways be affiliated with residential houses. The committee’s primary motivation in making this recommendation is that “students also receive a great deal of advice from one another, particularly from older students who can tell them about the experience of being in particular courses or concentrations.” Continuing to strengthen the Prefect Program, with the aim of someday converting it into a system of upperclass residential advisors, will accomplish this goal and preserve...