Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Steps must be taken to ensure that Houses remain central to undergraduate social life. Despite popular opinion, Harvard students are not inherently asocial. Popular House events like the Leverett House Eighties Dance and the Adams House Masquerade (from which hundreds of students had to be turned away) prove that students will flock to social events if given the opportunity. More large, campus-wide House events are necessary to satisfy student desire and to bring the campus community together...
...with both the Houses and the student groups continue to exist. Right now, student life at the college is in limbo. Will social life return to a House-based center? Or will groups further fracture as students spend more time in extracurricular activities, while turning to organizations outside of Harvard for a social outlet? I believe that it is in the best interests of both the students and the College to return the focus to House life. The results of such an affiliation would tremendously benefit the entire undergraduate community...
...clenched fist flew into Nick H. Weil '00 and instantly, the audience knew this was no ordinary Harvard show. Saturday night, during a production of the Gershwin musical "Crazy for You" at the Hasty Pudding Theatre, the fake fighting on the stage got out of hand and real blood was spilled. "It didn't hurt," Weil recounts of the stage fight gone bad. "I just whirled around as usual. I did everything as choreographed, and then as I was bent over, I saw pools of blood on the stage." But even after the incident, he decided to keep performing--after...
...Take Hooters for example. Third-year Harvard Law student Sharon M. McGowan explains that "Hooters sells food, but it also sells sex. Since they admit to selling sex and that is their main theme, they have the right to only hire female wait staff. Generally, though, when these defenses are posed to a judge they look upon them unsympathetically." The loopholes are there, but the courts make it a tough argument to support...
Background: Harvard is best known to most of the world through glossy recruitment pamphlets, Hollywood movies featuring glossy actors portraying clean-cut and brilliant students and glossy photos of well-established, aged-yet-immaculate colonial structures. In the public eye, Harvard is free of filth. To those outside the gates, our institution is spotless. Harvard students know better...