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...thought I would be so interesting,” says Du Puy, who describes himself as shy but unconventional. “But in retrospect, I haven’t been.” This comes from a classics and music concentrator who worked on his class’ first-year musical, has performed in several shows, rings the Lowell House bells, tried out for X-Rated “on a whim” and ended up being one of five steppers with no prior experience, and wrote a madrigal for Music 51 about the Latin version of Winnie...
Susannah Graves ’03, Guttentag’s friend and first-year roommate, says that while Guttentag recognizes how much she’s changed—reinvented herself, even—there is much of the vintage do-anything first-year that remains. “Everyone changes in college,” Graves says. “It’s just that a big part of what changed her was the accident. She doesn’t take bullshit from anybody and she has always been like that.” Limitations, however, are something...
...oversees more than 300 volunteers and gives 25 hours a week to UniLu, which she joined as a first-year. She counts her relationships with its guests—including recovering alcoholics, battered women and drug addicts—as her most meaningful friendships, and says some of her most satisfying memories are times when a shelter guest shows her the keys to a new house. “She has an internal radar of how people are doing and knows intuitively when they need a boost,” says Dominika L. Seidman...
After spending his first-year summer balancing an internship with Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura and a night job delivering pizzas, Subrahmanian learned about the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp in Connecticut, a summer refuge for children with cancer or serious blood diseases. “It was exactly what I knew I had to do,” he says he realized after seeing a promotional video for the camp. Subrahmanian has spent the last two summers working there. “It’s the best place in the world, period,” he says...
...afraid that readers of “Law Dean To Retire After 13 Years at Helm” (News, Nov. 26) might be left with the impression that Harvard Law Dean Robert C. Clark will leave a wholly positive legacy when he retires at the end of the year. It is true, as sources in the article emphasized, that Clark deserves recognition for his fundraising prowess and for renovating and rebuilding the campus, as well as for major improvements to the first-year curriculum and the loan forgiveness program...