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...collected e-mail statements from more than 40 students who had stored their belongings with Collegeboxes over the summer. The e-mails cited problems ranging from lost futons to misplaced paperwork to delays in receiving insurance claim checks.Kirkland was particularly affected by those problems because the House??s storage space underwent renovations last summer, and the College used Collegeboxes to store residents’ belongings, at no cost to students.Last November, the Undergraduate Council passed a unanimous resolution lambasting the company’s practices and calling on the College to “sever ties?...
...Cregg ’09, “Who’s Afraid?” will run through May 5. Large sofas and lounge chairs have replaced the normal audience seating of the theatre, and its normally dull, black walls have become like the inner walls of a house??complete with a large bay window. A layer of hardwood flooring completely covers the ground. The effect is that members of the audience literally walk into the living room of George and Martha, one of the two couples around whom “Who’s Afraid...
...used to sit around and watch my uncle all the time, so I’ve always been banging on stuff, banging on tables, the sink, legs, or even somebody else when I was younger,” he says, drumming his fingers on a bench in Lowell House??s courtyard.Though he played bass guitar in a blues band in addition to studying piano for eight years, Ogunnaike’s true passion, drumming, developed by chance during his freshman year.“One of my friends dragged me to a West African dance class...
...performance of Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture,” and sound the first notes only one hour later. In place of the usual firing of cannons, the group opts for exploding hydrogen balloons, and kazoos fill in for any missing instruments. Lowell House??s famous Russian bells also figure prominently in the piece. Channing Yu ’93, a Lowell House tutor, will conduct the performance, as he has done for the last several years. Before that, Yu played in the orchestra, which he says draws a fair number of polished performers...
...from the point of view not of a biologist but of a physical scientist and engineer.”In addition to the brittle star, Aizenberg cites the example of the Venus’ flower basket, a deep-sea sponge that not only builds a “glass house?? with mechanical properties superior to any man-made glass, but surrounds the house with a cloud of optical fibers, using techniques similar to those behind recent innovations in optical technology.Federico Capasso, the Wallace professor of applied physics, says that Aizenberg’s work will fit well with...