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Hints of late-morning vodka and the buzz of rivalrous housing chants wafted in front of Annenberg Hall yesterday as residents of Harvard’s 12 undergraduate Houses welcomed freshmen to their newly assigned residences.“We’re hot, we’re drunk, we’re going to the Quad!” chanted a horde of Cabot residents before a line of freshmen waiting to get inside the dining hall.A menagerie of House mascots paraded the surrounding lawn, only adding to the morning’s competitive atmosphere.The Mather Gorilla, who declined...
...unstoppable—another Harvard’s possible!” The protesters stopped in front of the John Harvard statue and continued yelling, “No justice, no peace! U.S. out of the Middle East!”Speaking from the front steps of University Hall, Timothy P. McCarthy, a History and Literature lecturer, urged the crowd to remember what he said the Bush administration wants them to forget. “They want us to forget that none of the men on those planes were Iraqi. They want us to forget that there were no weapons...
Under the tenure of former University President Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard began a transition away from the school-based approach that has historically dominated development efforts toward fundraising for University-wide priorities. This shift is set to remain a priority of Mass. Hall despite the changing of the guard. Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development Tamara E. Rogers has announced the creation of a University Development Office team dedicated to soliciting large donations for projects that cross schools. “I would say that certainly University development is transitioning to being able to serve a wider...
...present Q system, students could submit their feedback online, and the Q Guide could even be expanded to show which professors respond well to student feedback. While we certainly understand the criticisms of those who fear that this change would simply add to the already cumbersome bureaucracy at University Hall, we firmly assert that this new program would have a beneficial impact on the College as a whole. Enforcing midterm evaluations and grading would ultimately help, not hinder, Harvard’s oft-bemoaned pedagogy...
...common room.”Over a year ago, the College convened a Space Assessment Committee to collect comprehensive data on all of the residential space at the College. The committee’s recommendations were assessed by the Office of Residential Life (ORL)—a University Hall group in charge of housing decisions—in the summer of 2007, and their findings are largely seen as the basis for many of the changes enacted by the Houses this year.Associate Dean for Residential Life, Suzy M. Nelson declined to comment for this story yesterday.The announcement comes just...