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...season and for freshmen to have the same visitation rights as upperclassmen.As members of the Class of 1956 completed their freshman year, they lost the opportunity to entertain women from 1 to 4 p.m., in return for a three-hour extension on Saturday evenings until 11 p.m. Despite the gain on Saturday nights, undergraduates had a net loss of 15 hours per week of parietal hours.But Radcliffe took the cutback in hours the hardest.“There is no other place to sit quietly in the afternoon,” complained one ’Cliffie to The Crimson...
Chair of the Classics Department Richard F. Thomas, a Faculty Council member said that Edward’s departure is “another resignation of a significant administrator,” adding that “Yale’s gain is distinctly our loss.” Edwards kept the Council abreast on all study abroad issues and initiatives, he said...
...unfair outcomes. “When it works and you have a spirited game that was won or lost based on pure athletic talent it’s amazing...[but] the game can easily be ruined by individuals or even teams that use the self officiating rules just to gain an advantage,” he writes in an e-mail. Marsh says that, ultimately, the soaring popularity of Ultimate Frisbee is the result of a very simple reality. “There is something beautiful about a Frisbee flying and people chasing after it,” he says...
...institutions—providing dining hall workers with higher wages would be further justified by the need for a better safety net for unexpected summer unemployment (even at its best, Harvard could never re-hire all dining hall employees for the summer). Moreover, the entire Harvard community stands to gain from a happier, better compensated work-force...
...their attacks and numbers - not ancillary questions like how many Iraqi units are fit to fight without U.S. assistance. A functioning Parliament could provide a release valve for rising sectarian tensions, but the fact is both disaffected Sunnis and Shi'ites are still using the threat of violence to gain political leverage. It is wrong to assume that each new step toward democracy, however laudable, will persuade jihadists to lay down their arms; those who disdain Western-style democracy aren't likely to be persuaded by its implementation...