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Geoffrey C. Upton '99 is a social studies concentrator in Leverett House. His column will resume during reading period...
...Leverett Informal is an even greater triumph given the history of sketchiness that cloaks House formals. For instance, Quincy House residents must brave the mysterious "Club Joy." Other House members never get to leave Cambridge at all. For instance, Adams House residents may engender campus-wide envy for their dining hall, but while eating there is a culinary delight, one can't imagine that the same joy accompanies waltzing in it. Dartbord, for instance, would simply be too afraid of being gonged out of the dance. How embarrassing! They may do it up right with lights and clear the floor...
Exhibit number one: The Leverett '80s Dance. At least half the play list consists of songs that no 21-year-old was old enough to remember hearing on the radio; nonetheless, everyone cheers gleefully with the imagined recognition of the music of their youth. Who was an ABBA fan before the great ABBA revival of the early '90s? Does anyone remember hearing the Violent Femmes "Blister in the Sun," that great staple of '80s dances, when it was first released? As a cultural institution, the '80s dance plays off of a nostalgia for a past that most of us never...
...looking for some night entertainment, we've got you covered. Start Friday night with a battle of the bands in Pfoho, and then catch a movie on Saturday. Wrap your night up by checking out the HoCo dance in Leverett sponsored by Leverett, Lowell, Eliot, and the UC. Oh, yeah--it's all free! So make sure to stop by one or all of our events this year and work off some of the stress. Come to Springfest...
Student groups participating include the National Champion Women's Hockey Team, the Chinese Students Association, the Radcliffe Choral Society, the Progressive Student Labor Movement, the Harvard Radcliffe Science Fiction Association, the Juggling Club, the South Asian Association, and many more. Pforzheimer, Kirkland, and Leverett House Committees will also be putting on events...