Word: jcr
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Harvard Cancer Society (HCS) hosted its second annual Valentine’s Day Date Auction last Saturday in the Quincy JCR, raising over $1,100 for cancer research. But can money really buy you love? HCS president Natasia A. de Silva ’08 reluctantly says no. “The event is for charity, not for love.” Yet she insists, “I can tell you, there were actual romantic dates last year,” giving hope to the love-sick hopefuls looking for their own cure this coming Valentine?...
...Eliot JCR buzzes as FM’s picks make their unlikely rounds. Next to a pile of steaming burritos and bottles of two-buck Chuck, a rocker in a brown polyester jacket chats with a beautiful geek in suspenders. Over by the couches, a sourdough CEO with a soothing French accent sits beside a renowned breaker in sweats and sneakers. And some of Harvard’s most vocal activists—on both sides of the spectrum—talked blogs...
...given the unique opportunity to actually participate in them. For the first annual “International Dance Workshop,” organized by the Chinese Students Association (CSA), student representatives from five cultural dance groups gathered to present aspects of their dance styles to interested undergraduates in Winthrop JCR. According to organizers, the event was intended to foster an intercultural exchange between various cultural dance groups on campus and interested newcomers. Featured groups included the Harvard Bulgarian Club, Candela Salsa, the Harvard Breakers, the Asian American Dance Troupe, and Harvard Ballet Folklorico de Aztlan. In addition, Rohini Rau-Murthy...
...We’re here to promote destigmatization of mental health issues through open discussion,” said MHAAG co-chair Eunice Yang ’08. The approximately 20 students, alums, and MHAAG members present for the event pushed the couches in the Lowell JCR into a tight circle and discussed ways to help friends suffering from mental health issues. Though all of the information presented in the meeting was meant to apply to individuals helping friends with problems, Isabelle C. Burtan ’06-’07, MHAAG secretary, said that she hoped that...
...nascent Campus Political Society (CPS) seeks to further similar goals of coordination, focusing on political groups on campus. In their first major project this weekend, the CPS organized a Political Activities Fair for prefrosh that brought 41 groups together in the Winthrop JCR to make their pitch to freshmen. In bringing these groups together, the fair allowed groups to not only recruit for their individual organizations, but to collectively make the case to prefrosh for involvement in the Harvard political community as a whole...