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Among the many pieces of mail that Harvard sent out this summer, few caused as much of a stir as the flyer informing incoming first years that they would not be allowed to use halogen lamps in their dimly-lit Yard dorms...
Besides the new smoking ban this fall, first-years are also subject to a ban on halogen lamps...
Ware said he believed upper-class students may have been spared the moratorium on cigarettes and halogen lamps so far because of "custom and tradition," which have always allowed older students to have them...
Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth S. Nathans said in an e-mail that "there is absolutely no connection between our decision with regard to smoking and our decision to ban halogen lamps...
However, if the Administration still feared that undergraduates might succumb to the unnatural urge to socialize even after such an exhausting day, they could simultaneously ban all halogen lamps (making themselves happy) and open all libraries 24 hours a day (making students happy). That should quell any fears of too much social activity...