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December is fast-approaching, and students who stored their winter gear over the summer may find this holiday season a bit colder than usual. A large number of Kirkland House students—about two dozen, according to two Kirkland House seniors who have volunteered to gather complaints—are still without the clothing, furniture, and dorm paraphernalia that the Watertown-based company Collegeboxes promised to deliver to their doors in September. Three months later, students have had to complain repeatedly to Collegeboxes and threaten legal action against the company, and only now have they begun to recover?...
...boxes are? For some students who stowed their belongings with Collegeboxes, a Watertown-based storage service company that contracted with Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) last school year, the answer is still ‘no.’ And they’re angry about it. The students, mostly Kirkland House residents, are directing their frustration at Collegeboxes, a firm that The Wall Street Journal has called the largest national storage and rental business geared towards college clients. They say Collegeboxes either lost their belongings or did not deliver their possessions or reimbursement checks on time. Because Kirkland underwent renovations...
Thiara, a Chemistry concentrator in Kirkland House, founded a nonprofit organization called FAWSIT—the Foundation for the Advancement of Water Sanitation Improvement Technology—after his grandfather died of complications related to infectious diarrhea two years ago. Thiara plans to study for two Masters degrees in theoretical chemistry and water science, management, and policy while at Oxford...
Henry M. Cowles ’08, a Crimson arts editor, is an environmental science and public policy concentrator in Kirkland House and events coordinator of the EAC. Tom D. Hadfield ’08, a Crimson editorial editor, is a government concentrator in Eliot House and the UC liaison to the EAC. Jake C. Levine ’06-’07, a Crimson photography editor, is a history and literature concentrator in Leverett House and co-chair...
...public by a stranger. But I am thankful that she forced me to analyze that anger and to confront religious beliefs that I now see are as gossamer as her headscarf itself.Nadia O. Gaber ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, is a history and literature concentrator in Kirkland House...