Word: leverett
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think it could be thinner. It's much too wide," says one Leverett sophomore. "Widener is confusing; it's not organized. It doesn't know what it wants to say. It's just there...
...Tourists are not afraid of Widener, because they don't know what Widener really is," says the Leverett sophomore...
...play such tunes as "I Will Survive," Grease's "You Better Shape Up ('cause I need a man)" and the always bitter "Love Bites." About fifty students danced hard under a strobe light, and according to second-year grad student Tony Zhang, had "a really good time." Leverett's dance attracted roughly two hundred students (mostly first-years and Leverett house residents) with the promise that "the first 100 will receive a kiss" -a rich, sweet Hershey's kiss. An additional perk was the personal ad board where students could advertise their availability, and perhaps even get a response...
After last year's successful Anti-Valentine's Day Dance, Leverett decided to turn couple-bashing into an annual tradition. As for Eliot, people in the House Committee were, in the words of Co-chair John Malleis '96 "tired of the idea of Valentine's Day. If you don't have a girlfriend or boyfriend, it can be kind of a bummer. We were just like 'All happy people should be shot...
Dance attendees seemed to relish the theme of Anti-Valentine's not merely out of bitterness, but also out of playful cynicism. Although people did not go as far as calling Valentine's Day a spawn of Satan, many view it as a commercialized ploy. Leverett's Aaron Caughey '95 found the idea of Anti-Valentine's Day Dances "fabulous. I think Valentine's Day puts a lot of pressure on people. But this says it's okay to be single--there's no pressure. Valentine's Day is a bit of a marketing thing--you know 'how much stuff...