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Next fall in Lamont, expect to see students sipping espresso and munching on carrot cake as they print off those last-minute essays. The third floor will have a whole new look, when the as-yet-unnamed café opens in the current Reference Room...
You’ve been spending so much time in Lamont that you’ve made a nest in the Farnsworth Room, and your fellow ’round-the-clockers are looking pretty hott right now. But how do you break the ice with your bookworm beauty? Fifteen Minutes has a few suggestions to help you go Lamonster on that hottie. . . 1) I hear Lamont is the new Widener stacks. 2) You’re reading Habermas? I’d love to colonize your private spheres. 3) We should probably find the nearest exit; there?...
...sparkling and different and bright. (The B’s go to Radcliffe girls who memorize the text and quote it verbatim, in perfectly hooped letters with circles over the i’s.) Not, I remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz’s fallacies with their mothers. They often get A’s too, but as Mr. Carswell points out, this takes too long. There are other ways.His third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption...
...chest to bring us Ben Folds, which turned out to be a fun—and free—event. Though it often took a student push to get there, we now have a 24-hour library and a soon-to-come pub in Loker and café in Lamont. It might take a while to get administrators to really listen, but progress is often made.There are plenty more complaints that could be debunked at least partially. And I’m not saying that it is plausible, or even logical, for us to stop complaining. But at the risk...
...elections to a popularity contest. UC members, however, continue to perpetuate these inefficiencies in order to protect their incumbency advantage, a disgraceful parade of egoism which we should repudiate.The UC has had a string of advocacy successes over the last year capped by the realization of a 24-hour Lamont and a successful lobbying campaign to make social programming a priority at the College. But the UC has shown disheartening shortsightedness when it comes to looking introspectively and setting up a UC framework which will ensure continued success, while preventing repeated failures. The UC has failed to restructure itself...