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...action at the alumnae tailgates. One Owl boy was spotted somersaulting into porta-potties—one flew open, revealing a bemused middle-aged man. For the first time since 1879, the Porcellian tailgate (which came complete with a dead pig!) was THE place to be. At the Kirkland tailgate, an ’09er deliberately exposed himself to everyone’s favorite sex blogger. Impossible is nothing, literally. Phoho’s pre-Harvard-Yale Aleksey Vayner theme party featured a DJ, refreshments, and a grand total of zero guests. There was even more of nothing...
...Undergraduate Council last night called on all Harvard affiliates, including Harvard Student Agencies (HSA), to “sever ties” with the national storage service company Collegeboxes. Kirkland House resident Eric P. Lesser ’07 and his roommates first proposed the resolution last week after they alleged that it took longer to receive an insurance claim check from Collegeboxes than the 30-day period specified on the company’s Web site. They solicited 22 complaints from students with similar experiences, including claims that the company—which operates through a contract with HSA?...
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...