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...since the good old days of the XFL has a league needed to be disbanded this badly. Its eight members combined for five out-of-conference wins last year. Five. And two of those came from North Texas, which currently is heading for the exits faster than a first-year attending his first Ec 10 lecture...
Parlin, who came out as a first-year at Harvard College, met his partner Benjamin Bataclan while dancing at the Boston club Avalon, and they’ve been together for nine years. Their marriage, planned for Thursday at Old Cambridge Baptist Church, will change their everyday life, Parlin said. His partner is self-employed, and cannot receive health benefits under Parlin’s plan without being legally married...
...Monday morning, Paul J. McLoughlin II, assistant dean of Harvard College and first-year proctor in Pennypacker Hall, filed his intent to marry his partner Jason K. Schumaker, who is a financial aid officer at MIT. They were couple number 82 in the line at Cambridge City Hall...
Unfortunately, a key part of the report’s proposal for restructuring first-year advising will make the Yard a worse place to live. The report’s plan to switch to a Yale-like system—where first-years are arbitrarily assigned to Houses before arriving in Cambridge and forced to live in entryways with their future House-mates—will not help first-year advising, and it will undermine that sense of community which is the chief benefit of Yard life...
...concern with first-year advising that inspired the report’s plan is legitimate. But a few simple changes could do more to remedy this situation without hurting student life. First, Harvard should acknowledge that first-years often learn most from their peers. Instead of placing grad students and office workers—some of whom were never undergraduates at Harvard—in the first-year dorms, the College should use those prime proctor suites to house undergraduates who can help first-years cope with the difficulties that they so recently experienced. If the Yard had one proctor...