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...laugh. No offense meant to Nathans, who's a lovely woman, but she represents the Freshman Dean's Office. The very same FDO has been telling first-years--for who knows how long--that noisiest part of residential living, part of the College experience. It comes with the territory. Frosh must learn to live with their roommates and neighbors, and living together includes tolerating your neighbors' noise...
...college campus. And I agree with the goals of the coalition: achieving a Faculty that is diverse in more ways than age, home state and necktie pattern. Moreover, the protesters chose a prime date to demonstrate. Standing at the foot of the University's namesake during pre-frosh weekend is a smart strategic move. I later found out that the demonstrators were handing out information and collecting signatures. So it is unfortunate that they had turned me off before I got anywhere close...
Saturday night at the Agassiz Theater, the curtain opened to a packed house. However, the average age of the crowd was well over 40, with the exception of young children (other than pre-frosh) and roommates of the cast. Why was it that the latest Gilbert & Sullivan production did not seem to appeal to the college-aged crowd? Was it that so many other plays and parties were happening that night as well? Was it the idea of a comic British play first performed in 1877 that turned of most theater-goers...
...things pre-frosh students heard about this weekend on their countless tours, panels and information sessions is the incredible diversity they will find at Harvard...
...goal of the protest, according to rallier Jessy J. Fernandez '99, was to let pre-frosh, undergraduates and the entire Harvard community know that "Harvard is really failing" in its attempts to diversify its faculty and curriculum...