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...could be scheduled then. Instead, faculty would spend time with students. There’s plenty each professor can do before that distant day comes: to start, make it a priority to eat lunch once a week in a House. There is a reason Harvard has “Houses?? and not “dormitories.” If professors start breaking the odd distance that currently subsists between them and their students, it will be a tiny step towards a university more based on human exchanges. We students have a lot to offer, and are only...
...generate so much controversy because of a seemingly impossible reconciliation of two lofty ideals: the creation and maintenance of a definable House community through a dining hall, and the integration of first-years into upperclass life. Those who believe that the former concept is more important tend to support Houses?? dining hall restrictions, and those who believe the latter concept prevails tend to oppose them. It is difficult to deem one principle to be higher than the other, but when we empirically examine what happens to dining halls when there are no interHouse restrictions—namely...
After a volley of complaints on the House open list about dining hall crowds and overworked staff, Quincy House Master Robert P. Kirshner ’70 called an open meeting Tuesday night to discuss the possibility of enacting the Houses??s first dining hall restrictions...
Pilbeam also said the committee was not prepared to offer any recommendations on the possibility of assigning freshmen to upperclass Houses, which would give them access to the Houses?? advising resources...
...student body than Matt Glazer. Through relentless—and often thankless—advocacy efforts, Glazer successfully negotiated for the installation of blue-light emergency phones in Cambridge Commons. He managed the monumental feat of convincing the administration to embrace 24-hour Universal Keycard Access in undergraduate Houses??a perennial item on council campaign platforms of years past. Glazer was also instrumental in eliminating the add-drop registration fee; he successfully increased the number of recycling bins in the Houses; and he helped to establish wellness tutors in all undergraduate Houses and freshmen yards. Glazer is well...