Word: lamont
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...than ever before, dear Harvard is telling its 6,000-plus undergraduates to get out of here. The Ivy gates, as exclusive and foreboding as they are to outsiders, often prove more suffocating to those inside, and the administration is doing its best to encourage its undergraduates to forsake Lamont for Latvia and the Coop for Cape Town...
...held tri-weekly planning meetings in the Lamont Library Café with Michael R. Ragalie ’09, the chair of the UC’s Student Affairs Committee. They also met with Faculty of Arts and Sciences administrators to discuss the appointment of a new secretary of the Faculty and a new dean of the College...
...That fight reached a climax in 2006, when From, independent of the DLC, supported his friend Senator Joe Lieberman, who was facing a primary challenge in Connecticut from Ned Lamont, a blogger-backed antiwar candidate. The Lamont primary victory followed by the Lieberman general-election victory (as an independent) infuriated the party's activists. They argued that From, like Lieberman, seemed to see liberals as a greater threat than the singularly awful presidency of George W. Bush. Indeed, the activists became positively Fromian: they decided to drum him and his DLC out of the party-and with their cybermegaphone plus...
...undergraduate curriculum this spring, an office of undergraduate advising now exists in University Hall, a peer advising program, a delay in concentration choice, and a secondary-field program are all in place, and students now can congregate in a student organizations center, a women's center, the Lamont Library Café, freshman common rooms, and even an undergraduate pub. Additionally, offices for alcohol safety and sexual assault prevention exist on campus to serve students, and changes to the student handbook will give administrators the power to punish student group leaders involved in hazing beginning this fall...
Gross's successes during his tenure came particularly from his efforts to work collaboratively with students, Petersen said, from the creation of the peer advising program, the Lamont Library Café, to the Cambridge Queen's Head...