Word: lamont
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Even in the most intimate matters of life, many will turn to the language of economics. Simply look through the posts on boredatlamont.com, an online discussion board named for Harvard’s Lamont Library. Some of the posts there use language of economics to discuss relationships and even...
Each and every reading period, Lamont Library’s brightly lit, over-heated insides echo with our quiet cursing of all those instructors who had the gall to assign thousands of pages of material, without even pretending to hold us accountable during the term. In short, it’s the perfect time to ask us to fill out course evaluations...
...current plan, which allows for unlimited meals in dining halls. The other would restrict the number of meals per week a student could eat in dining halls but would give the student a larger amount of Board Plus dollars to spend at on-campus eateries such as Lamont Cafe, the Greenhouse Cafe, or the impending Queen’s Head Pub. Such a plan has some clear benefits. Students would be able to eat more meals during late-night (or late-late-night) hours when the dining halls are long closed but a few campus cafés are still...
...Toilet seat covers in all Harvard public bathrooms. Squatting is hard on the thigh muscles, and no one, let alone the busy Harvard Man, has time to stand in a stall carefully placing individual toilet paper squares around the perimeter of the seat. Thankfully, the good folks at Lamont Library have already recognized the need for these germ blocking devices. Here’s hoping the rest of the University follows suit...
...With so much buzz surrounding a cause as trivial as this—where badgering the administration into opening Lamont 24 hours a day is heralded as a momentous victory—it is easy to accuse Harvard’s entire student body of being overly consumed with petty, ivory tower politics and personal advancement. After spending two hours at the entirely student-run Harvard Square Homeless Shelter (nicknamed UniLu as a result of it being situated in the basement of the University Lutheran Church) this past Saturday, it has become evident to me just how unfair such...