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Dining Hall: Winthrop’s subterranean dining hall is cozy and hospitable, but it can get too close for comfort. The dining hall was originally designed to serve only the building where it is housed: Gore Hall, a former freshman dormitory. (Standish Hall, another former freshman dorm, was later joined with Gore Hall to form Winthrop House.) The dining hall got so crowded this year that it recently had to impose stricter inter-House dining restrictions, requiring all Winthrop students to secure Winthrop House stickers for their IDs. At least the dining hall is a convenient place...
...dining hall was flooded with bathroom water for a few hours two years ago, and so-called friends may mock you about it. More significantly, the dining hall lost its most lion-hearted member due to Harvard’s budget cuts. Winthrop’s friendly former card-swiper, Sonia, knew the names of every Winthrop student for the past decade, but she left last spring after taking Harvard’s early retirement package...
Common Spaces: As a combination of two former freshman dorms, Winthrop's common spaces amount to the dining hall, the Junior Common Room, the Tonkens Room (a smaller version of the JCR), and wonderful but dutifully quiet House library. The JCR and Tonkens Room are often used by student organizations, so most students don’t rely on them as hangout places. That said, the JCR is a beautiful throwback to old Harvard, replete with luxurious couches and chairs. It is ideal for studying, hanging out with friends, watching TV, or showing off piano skills when it is open...
Perhaps quirkiest of all, Winthrop lays claim to an entryway that has fallen into disrepair. Harvard allegedly does not have the money to fix the foundations of its former K entryway, a house facing Memorial Drive. A door in J-entryway awkwardly still has the words “K ENTRY” imprinted on it—leading outside to face the decaying house...
Every creed has its pop experts - the backgrounders and sound-biters parsing their traditions for a sometimes-perplexed nation. The Buddhist slot, for example, is occupied by Uma Thurman's father Robert, a professor and former Tibetan monk. In the 1990s reporters looking for a conservative Catholic voice sought out Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, editor of the journal First Things; for a more liberal take they called America's then editor Fr. Thomas Reese. But Neuhaus passed away and Reese (who remains a brilliant analyst) was controversially fired by the Pope. Since then Martin, America's culture editor...