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Having attended a large public high school, Jones was accustomed to lots of social interaction and so her involvement on campus upon arrival was kind of a given. As Co-President of Mather HoCo, Jones spends all of her time on campus. “A lot of my friends are in the Quad, so I crash their Stein Clubs and go to parties there when I can,” she says...
...studying or partying, she’s busy singing Mather’s praises. “My freshman year was the start of the Mather Renaissance, as our House Masters like to call it,” says Jones. “There was a very active HoCo that year and it’s gotten even better over the years. We went around to freshmen and lots of them were crying because they hadn’t gotten into Mather. That was really amazing...
...problem,” said Aaron D. Chadbourne, ’06. “This provides an alternative place for people to do that in a space that otherwise wouldn’t have been used for anything.” Members of the Lowell House Committee (HoCo) hope that the lounge will satisfy all factions within the house. “There are a lot of people who have different sorts of social contexts,” said Lowell HoCo co-chair Neil K. Mehta ’06. “I think having a gaming space...
...House—grounded in anything other than propinquity-by-necessity—House life must be rich enough to win his affections away from the myriad student organizations that claw at undergraduates’ time and loyalties. Most recently, the debate has turned to House Committee (HoCo) funding. Late last month, the Undergraduate Council (UC) announced changes to the way in which it will fund HoCos. But while the new rules are certainly a step in the right direction, they cannot hope to go far enough to make HoCos genuinely effective instruments of House community. To do that...
Larger grants for HoCo funding from the UC, in the neighborhood of $7,000 per House per year, have made it possible for HoCos to do a great deal more than before. But there is still a lot of untapped HoCo energy that could throw even more events if more funding was available. And there are dollars funding other campus life projects that could be better spent on HoCos. For as much as we support the end missions of the UC’s Campus Life Committee and the Harvard Concert Commission, it’s hard...