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...Leverett HoCo co-chair Stephen A. Koren ’07 said. “I don’t feel like there is any deep animosity between the Houses.”HoCos and House residents will still strive, though, to impress rising freshmen by asserting their Houses?? unique attributes.“Each House has their traditions,” said Koren, who described such housing day customs as Adams residents arriving at Annenberg in tuxedoes and Mather students showing up intoxicated.Earlier this month, though, a debate erupted on the Currier e-mail open-list about...
...self-segregation. While these were indeed honorable aims, the evidence we’re surrounded with on a daily basis suggests that perhaps randomization was not the wisest method of achieving these goals. In fact, it may have even been counterproductive. In many cases, once students enter the Houses??rather than happily intermingling with everyone in the house, sharing insights on cultural and extracurricular experiences—they are likely to be content with socializing within the tiny insular unit of their blocking group. And if anyone does bother to venture outside that special group of eight...
...lower taxes for the higher classes. Snow’s pleas to Congress for more money, more debt, amount to more bills for future generations. But those generations are the ones that keep suffering the lack of attention from current the Federal government. We are appalled by the Houses?? rejection of a bill to halt cutbacks on education last week. It has become clear that America is ready to spend on foreign battlegrounds, tax cuts for successful middle-aged professionals, and benefits for powerful interest groups, but not for the generations being raised today. The federal myopia...
...years later, Harvard’s Community Health Initiative (CHI) still denies first-year men the resources to fulfill that prophetic motto. Thankfully, the Undergraduate Council recently passed a bill to support the placement of condoms in all freshmen dorms to supplement the current supply in the Houses??a move that Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman ’67 has encouraged. We hope that in the coming weeks, CHI addresses the obvious desire of the community and begins to stock freshmen dorms with protection...
...most Undergraduate Council (UC) elections, students are forced to choose between two types of candidates. One ticket has the vision and experience to make the UC the best it can be. The other candidates are more deeply involved in the Harvard community—in their student groups and houses??and promise to bring a much-needed outside perspective...