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...rocky start for a too-cute-to-be-true ending. Taj had the luck to be in a single by himself on pre-frosh weekend. After chatting with Tonika in his room, whom he had met at the pre-frosh barbecue, until 5 a.m., he asked her to stay over. Rebuffed, he walked the pretty Texas native back to her host’s room, where he made yet another bold attempt: he asked for a kiss. “Don’t beg,” she said, borrowing a line from the 1990 movie House Party. That...
...would all like to forget the Blair Hornstine saga. In her precocious rise to infamy, from high school valedictorian and Harvard pre-frosh to local pariah and Harvard mistake, she brought out the worst in everyone. She incited her neighbors, who terrorized her with threats and harassment. She disgusted the news media, who caricatured her with stereotypes and gossip. She embarrassed hundreds of Harvard students, who petitioned to banish her before plagiarism gave them any real grounds. And she indulged the rest of us, who reveled in schadenfreude when she finally met her brutal fate...
...have some validity; I am not quite hedonist enough to want sacrifice safety in favor of atmosphere. I do think, though, that the ban on fires is an overreaction, and I know that the emptied fireplaces suggest an unfortunate metaphor. Last spring, when a flood of fresh-faced pre-frosh inundated campus, earnest eighteen-year-olds kept asking me why I’d come to Harvard. “Because I got in,” I told them, only half joking. I—and, I suspect, most of us—came to Harvard at least...
Eric S. Barr ’03 and M. Rachael Lovett ’03 lived about eight miles apart in Louisville, Ky., but it took them until pre-frosh weekend to meet each other. Though both entered Harvard dating other people, they became good friends their first year, and more than friends by the December of their sophomore year...
...dispute over licensing follows hard on the heels of last weekend’s break-up of Mather Lather—the foam party held in honor of pre-frosh weekend...