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...colored powder capped off the annual Hindu Holi festival this past Saturday afternoon, in what was the College’s first official celebration of the holiday. Members of Harvard’s Hindu Students Association, Dharma, served samosas, wafers, and biscuits to a crowd of about 40 at Kirkland House last weekend in observance of Holi. “It’s our first year, so it’s experimental, but I’m very pleased with the great turnout,” said Utpal N. Sandesara ’08, Dharma’s social...
...scheme of things, blocking didn’t seem that important. I didn’t have strong feelings about who I lived with, so I didn’t want another thing to think about,” Osborne wrote in an e-mail. Osborne ended up in Kirkland House, where he now rooms with two other floaters, Daniel Payan ’08 and Philip K. Hafferty ’08. Payan, however, was an unwitting floater. His intended roommate filled out the housing form under his own name, thinking Payan could add his name afterward...
...blocking groups would be assigned to nearby Houses. Under this new system, the Houses are divided into four “neighborhoods.” Cabot, Currier, and Pforzheimer make up one neighborhood; Adams, Lowell, and Quincy comprise another; Dunster, Mather, and Leverett create the third; and Eliot, Kirkland, and Winthrop round out the last neighborhood.“I think it’s caused a lot of restructuring of groups last minute,” Frank A. DeSimone ’09 said about the neighborhood blocking option. DeSimone has chosen to block with two of his roommates...
...security.“A police car could have gone by 20 seconds earlier,” he said. “There’s no way of predicting when someone’s going to be attacked or the subject of a criminal act.”Kirkland House Master Tom Conley said that although traumatizing events had previously occurred in the Square, “this is the first time I’ve gotten something as lurid as this.” Conley said that it was important for residents of all the nearby Houses...
Rebecca D. O’Brien ’06 is a history and literature concentrator in Kirkland House. Her column appears on alternate Fridays...