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...final days as president last month, Chopra told FM that illuminating the Common was at the top of his list of safety prerogatives. But he failed to spur administrators to act. Staking out the Common lighting issue as his own gives Mahan the chance to emerge from Chopra’s shadow. But he has 373 years of history working against...
...Common is municipal property—outside of HUPD’s domain and beyond administrators’ control. As a result, Kidd, though sensitive to Mahan’s concerns, told FM that she would rather focus on matters within the safety committee’s jurisdiction than become embroiled in a spat with the city...
Kidd, in an interview with FM last month, came closer than any administrator, past or present, to admitting that the Common is unsafe. “The University, by virtue of publicly designating pathways, tells students that they should not walk through the Cambridge Common at night,” she said. And according to Currier House Master Joseph L. Badaracco, “Students do know about the hazards of Cambridge Common... everyone has been warned so many times about parks, especially at night...
...University has made no moves to initiate conversations with Cambridge on the issue. Sullivan said he has never discussed the Common lighting situation with Harvard representatives. And in an interview with FM Monday, Thomas J. Lucey, the University’s director of community relations for Cambridge, said that Harvard has no plans to broach the subject with municipal officials...
Succeeding in such an endeavor, however, is a different matter entirely. FM put this conventional notion to the test in the style of MTV’s Room Raiders. We challenged Wesley H. Kauble ’06 to choose a dream date out of a pool of eager sweethearts based solely on their interpretations of standard-issue university housing. Kauble, a lightweight rower and Undergraduate Council dynamo, purchased a car dealership with his winnings on NBC’s Weakest Link in his junior year of high school. But can a wide array of interests and experiences help...