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...students want to find a seat in their own dining halls. But they may yield a brilliant and unplanned side effect: restrictions contain within them the first seeds to re-germinate Harvard’s struggling House communities. Imagine if each House imposed resident-only hours for dining halls??€”the whole weekend, say, or perhaps just Sunday brunch. It would have the following effect...
...referred requests for comment to Robert Mitchell, director of communications for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Mitchell said he was unaware of the problem and could not comment further. Morgan, who lives in Currier’s Gilbert Hall, said other Currier residents in both Gilbert and Bingham Halls??€”two of the four buildings that comprise the House—reported leaks to CurrierWire, Currier’s open e-mail list. “I shot an e-mail to CurrierWire, and at least eight or nine other people responded that they had a similar problem...
Although many restrictions go unenforced, most dining halls??€”all except the Quad Houses, Dunster, and Mather—have some sort of guest-restriction policy in place. Lowell House, which formally bars interhouse dinners, is considering adding lunch limits in light of recent overflow crowds...
...past couple of weeks, University President Lawrence H. Summers has ushered the issue of gender and subject matter into the spotlight. In response, I’ve gone back to high school memories to wonder about what happened in our halls??€”about why there were always so few girls in AP physics or in the schools’ student government, about why this bothered everyone so much that when I was a junior, a bunch of us staged a day-long walkout and rally to bemoan gender inequality in school. The most controversial aspect of the rally...
...House’s convenient location—together with the revamping of the serving area and restrictions on diners at other House dining halls??€”has lured thousands more visitors to Quincy this year...