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...alcohol poisoning-related death of MIT first-year Scott Krueger—and MIT’s agreement last September to a $6 million settlement and partial admission of responsibility in the case—have heightened concerns about the extent of a club’s responsibility for injuries occurring on their property...
...admitted to Harvard off the waitlist, and took a year off before enrolling in 2000. Once through the door, even the chairman of the Harvard Corporation couldn’t give Fitzgerald an edge in the housing lottery. After being exiled to Pennypacker as a first-year, Fitzgerald was shipped off to the Quad last year in Pforzheimer house, and now resides in Jordan...
...chances at getting into Harvard, although his acceptances at nine other colleges suggest he probably didn’t need the tip factor. He was never particularly Harvard-focused: he hadn’t spent a significant amount of time on campus before he showed up for the First-year Outdoor Program, and his family never pressured him to go. “My family wanted me to go to a good college, a respectable place,” he says. “They didn’t define any one college...
...procrastinate. I plan ahead.” When the topic of grades surfaces, Brown pauses, and an unusual silence fills the air. She nervously twists her long blonde hair and eventually divulges that she won the Detur Award last year for being one of the top students in her first-year class. “I don’t want to sound like I’m bragging!” she says...
...group of Harvard first-year women danced on the crowded platform amidst boys in drag, glittering Wellesley women and colored lights flashing across the catwalk. Such a scene would rarely, if ever, be seen in the room parties and final clubs of the Harvard social scene...