Word: lamont
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...life improvements and making the realities of a Harvard undergraduate education worthy of its reputation.Debates on student life issues should be led by the UC. Two years ago, the UC loudly advocated for a 24-hour library. We now have not only a 24/5 library, but the hugely successful Lamont Café. In the spring, we will also (hopefully) have a brand new pub in Loker. We hope that these projects will be the beginning, rather than the end, of the administration’s investment in campus life. With the departure of former University President Lawrence H. Summers...
...member of the Student Advisory Board. Petersen has served on the UC since his freshman year and has been chair of the Student Affairs Committee (SAC) chair since last February. He has been involved in initiatives ranging from the College’s curricular review to the Lamont Café. His sophomore running-mate, Mather House Rep. Sundquist, has also been an active UC member since his freshman year. Zaidi of Lowell House sponsored the legislation to have the Malkin Athletic Center remain open a month longer this winter and has also been active on the curricular review...
...partly correct of course. Drill enough holes into a wall and it will surely crumble. Bang a door enough times, and you will unclasp it from its hinges. If students have enough workouts enough times in Lamont, the place will undoubtedly require wiping...
...imagine this isn't the first time Lamont has needed to have spring-cleaning in the fall. The library has been associated with anonymous gay sex since at least the mid-sixties. The writer Andrew Holleran (nee C. Eric Garber '65), in his autobiographic essay, "My Harvard," remembers the Lamont johns as a place replete with "advertisements for nude wrestling scrawled on the doors in Magic Marker." Once, "when a hand reached under the partition between the toilet stalls and stroked [his] left leg; [he] stood up, horrified, pulled [his] pants on and left." Holleran later came...
...There is certainly less tragedy and more of a sense of possibility at Harvard these days, and no one would disagree that things are easily much better. Yet the proliferation of internet sites among gay students, like boredatlamont.com and craigslist.org (search "Lamont" in their Boston personals section) does suggest a larger marginalization, a kind of failure to be integrated meaningfully into the larger community...