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Last year it was the gong--this year it is tiny white stickers. The interhouse brouhaha is back, and once again our friends in Adams House are the culprits behind the uproar. Earlier this month, the Adams House Committee labeled all resident I.D. cards in order to facilitate the enforcement of draconian interhouse restrictions. The result has been an overflow into Quincy House that has flooded both Lowell and Leverett dining halls as well...
...getting rich is marvelous, it can also be numbing. Communism and its concordant atheism remain the state religion. Indeed, Hu Jintao, a contender to succeed President Jiang, built his career partly on suppressing Tibetan Buddhist followers of the Dalai Lama and, it is believed, supported the crackdown on Falun Gong, the mystic sect that claims millions of members in China. As a sign of his ascendancy, Hu, a civilian, was elevated last week to the vice chairmanship of the critical Central Military Commission...
...That much was evident in August when the government banned the Falun Gong religious cult, whose members had sought comfort in its otherworldly explanations of the traumatic social changes under way in China. But the communists are struggling to come up with a coherent ideology to offer a society that it's trying to lead away from the party's own traditional beliefs...
...instead of Adams House students sounding a gong to expose diners from other Houses, stickers on Adams residents' ID cards will help dining hall checkers easily identify non-House residents during peak dining hours...
...Adams House Committee decided to institute the stickers last spring, after attempts to curb inter-House dining--including the gong--failed to alleviate crowded conditions...