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...familiar weekend scene: a mob of Harvard students looking for a party descend upon a few cramped common rooms scattered throughout the Houses. While these sparse closets-turned-dance-clubs burst with festive undergrads, the doors to some of the most vaunted social spaces within the Houses??infamous suites like Eliot House’s “Ground Zero” and Lowell House’s Bell Tower—remain closed. Thankfully, the Undergraduate UC (UC) has proposed a solution to this madness: the UC will now offer $200 “super-party?...
...reserving a room for an event completely intractable is, quite simply, a pipe dream. Too many different offices have control over room reservations, and the task of conceiving, lobbying for, and implementing a system is too great for such an initiative to approach short-term plausibility. Between individual Houses?? demands that their residents have first choice of rooms and the arcane regulations common among other Harvard common spaces, a centralized room reservation system is nothing but a black hole for time and effort. It would be much wiser, and simpler, to centralize the contact information for rooms...
...residents of Eliot House can attest, there are few greater annoyances in Harvard student life than the dreaded fire alarm. There have been three fire alarms in Eliot since the start of the semester, a fact that has caused many Eliot residents—and undergraduates at other Houses??to grumble that the University should do more to prevent these false alarms. To a certain extent, we agree that the University’s physical resources departments should do whatever they can to reduce the number of unnecessary alarms, but we recognize that no fire prevention system will...
Corker and Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd said they hoped the expansion of student space would allow for more informal gatherings in Houses?? Junior Common Rooms, which are usually reserved for rehearsals and meetings...
...renovations were motivated by aesthetic as well as functional concerns. The serving areas were entirely redesigned in the style of the Houses??Mather’s retains the feel of modern architecture while Dunster’s was designed to “look like someone’s mansion down in Newport, R.I.,” Snyder said...