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...were in a minority of 1:4 and we were not allowed to do many things we would have liked to do, like try out for The Crimson,” writes Jean Berko Gleason ’53, Watkins’ first-year roommate, in an e-mail...
Even as a first-year at Harvard, Zobel exhibited his independent—and sometimes in-your-face—attitude...
...Let’s first take a look at Harvard’s social menu. As a first-year, one is limited to clandestinely gathering in dorm rooms or searching aimlessly for upper-class parties. In the Houses, those students who by some stroke of luck have a (decent-sized) common room, who are 21, and who are willing to shell out the necessary dough can apply to have a party which will end at 1 a.m. sharp. As often as not, something will upset the delicate balance: it will be “too noisy...
...have a stronger hand in the shaping of campus policy, success will elude the Harvard administration and satisfaction will elude Harvard students. We know what can work. A keg ban at Harvard-Yale does not work: students drink more hard liquor. Taking a tough-guy stance on alcohol in first-year dorms does not work: it sends them elsewhere. Blaming final clubs does not work: they are free to ignore the warnings...
...managed to occupy parts of the downtown campus, break windows and viciously taunt the speech’s ticket-holders. An elderly Holocaust survivor was reportedly spit on, while an Israeli flag was burned. As police barricades separated pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli students, I walked by with a first-year art history class on a museum trip. Having already survived one year at the cantankerous university, I told the shocked freshmen, ‘Welcome...