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...dream never to come to fruition, thanks to Harvard’s neo-parietal rules. As you may have guessed, it’s not the same at other schools. According to the Haverford College housing website, students there can apply for three-person and two bedroom co-ed apartments, as well as single-sex suites on a floor with co-ed bathrooms. One-third of Haverford students living on-campus live in these kinds of apartments. At Wesleyan, along with the naked dorm (where students are allowed to let it all hang out, literally), there are?...
Consider Carol Lee Lindner, a Haverford, Pa., housewife, who says her life changed several years ago, when she discovered dragon-boat racing--competition among colorful boats, each with 20 paddlers, a drummer and a steerer. She put together Philadelphia's first women's team, then organized an annual 1,400-competitor dragon-boat festival in the city, complete with an athletes' village and an awards ceremony. "At some point, you share the gifts you have with others, and that's where I am at 63," she says...
...fifth-column treatment the school received wasn't warranted, its decision did invite second guessing. While critics slammed U.N.C. for teaching the Koran, the real problem may be that the school is not teaching enough of the Koran. Moeser says Approaching the Qur'an, assembled and translated by Haverford College professor Michael Sells, "was chosen in the wake of 9/11." But the book omits the verses in which the 9/11 terrorists might have sought to ground their actions. Subtitled The Early Revelations, Sells' book features scripture enunciated by Muhammad before the Prophet's takeover of the Arabian Peninsula...
...Haverford, Bean will oversee the college’s 1,100 undergraduates—about twice as many students as were under his watch while assistant dean of freshmen in charge of the Crimson Yard, which includes Hurlbut, Pennypacker, Greenough, Grays and Wigglesworth Halls...
Bean will not be overseeing dorm life at Haverford, which he said “will be a big change,” and he will have fewer disciplinary responsibilities. Instead, Bean said he will focus on “helping shape college policy and coordinat[ing] intervention in support of students who are having academic difficulties...