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...funds remains in doubt without long-term guarantees from the College and with the departure of University President Lawrence H. Summers, who has in the past pledged millions of his office’s dollars toward various undergraduate social initiatives. A pub in Loker Commons, a café in Lamont Library, and renovated student space and a coffee bar in the Hilles Building are all set to open next year, and all are funded by the central administration. While we anticipate that the renovation of these spaces will greatly contribute to the undergraduate social experience, we hope that similar initiatives...
...next president will be and what stance the leader will have, it’s a little hard to talk about progress. You really need a leadership that takes ownership of the issue,” says Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies Michele Lamont.“Social engineering is a complex thing and it doesn’t happen overnight,” she says. “You cannot expect this committee to produce deliverables.”THE PRICE IS RIGHT?Last spring, professors and administrators said Summers’ decision...
...worked as a stringer for The Boston Herald, which ultimately refused to even interview her for a post-college job because she was a woman.But in the face of gender bias, Greenhouse fought back. Her junior year, she helped lead a successful campaign to get Radcliffe students access to Lamont Library.HER LIFE AND TIMESGreenhouse’s long career at the Times began when, only a month after graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Radcliffe, she became the first female clerk to renowned columnist James B. Reston.“I think...
...alone. There was no opportunity to be instantly available, so alone-time was inevitable. But it seems that now we under-appreciate the virtue of taking time for ourselves. We no longer get away without a look of concern if we aren’t sitting in Lamont with our laptops, refreshing our inboxes, texting our friends, answering our phones, or seeming to care that—for a minute—we were walking around thinking alone.Perhaps it is a romanticized idea of what the Harvard experience once was, but I often think that I would have been forced?...
...enthusiastically attended and will be held again next year, with the addition of the new student-run College Events Board to help with planning and scheduling. New student social space will also be constructed over the summer. In October, a café will open in the reference room of Lamont Library, and three floors of student organization and meeting space in Hilles (along with the Penthouse Coffee Bar on the top floor) will be ready for the start of the fall term. Loker Commons is also being reinvented with music practice rooms and a pub. The pub, named the Cambridge...