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...such a struggle to figure out a group.”“The neighborhooding did help a lot,” Kyra A Hill ’09 said, but added that it was painful “classifying your friends” into either a close-knit blocking group or an outer-circle linking group.With housing assignments a little more than a week away, other freshmen have seen the blocking experience as an opportunity to express their artistic talent. “The tight-knit groups are fighting too because they got to with fringe friends pushing...
...Harvard College. Perhaps meant to evoke the image of a quaint, tight-knit liberal arts collegium in the pastoral beauty of rural New England? If Harvard’s COFHE scores are about nothing so much as nomenclature, this should clearly do the trick...
...mentor for Harvardians who question their faith or simply don’t believe in God. As faculty advisor to the Harvard Secular Society (HSS), he advises and guides a burgeoning group of atheist, agnostic, and humanist undergraduates. Losing Their ReligionThe kids of the HSS are a closely-knit, opinionated bunch. Its weekly discussion meetings are open to the community, but most of its regulars identify as atheists, with a handful of humanists and agnostics thrown in.Alex N. Harris ‘08, vice president of HSS, estimates that the group consists of “about 60% atheistic Jews...
...meetings are structured, and the informal atmosphere facilitates bonding among the membership.This sense of community is essential to their mission, according to members of the HRCF governing board. Even the Friday night large group meetings strive for openness and don’t follow any rigid rituals. As tightly knit as the HRCF is, they try to make their meetings as welcoming as possible. “We don’t want to be a clique,” Lee says.The HRCF is totally non-denominational, and meetings play host to a range of speakers, and depending on when...
...grave. The parade of turncoats in the racketeering trial of John Gotti Jr. have told of cold murder and dirty money and a celebrity kidnapping. But when Michael (Mikey Scars) DiLeonardo took the stand, he aimed his bombshell directly at gangland's most famous and famously tight-knit family. The defendant's father, he said--the legendary Mafia boss John Gotti Sr.--had a secret second family...