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Meredith B. Osborn ’02 is a social studies concentrator in Leverett House. Her column appears on alternate Fridays...
...essential feature of House life; that dining daily in the company of neighbors and tutors is one of the hallmarks of the Harvard experience. This is all well and good, but I fail to see how this would become any less possible if, say, all the residents of Leverett, Dunster and Mather House were lumped into a single dining hall. You could still eat with all of the people you do now; it’s just that you would also have more flexibility to eat in Harvard Square, Loker Commons or Annenberg as your schedule and taste or cost...
...other, stronger argument in favor of House dining is that it is extremely convenient. But Leverett Towers residents are about the same distance from their own dining hall as they are from Dunster or Mather House’s. Eliot and Kirkland House dining halls are already connected (if not yet in a student-accessible way), Lowell and Winthrop House residents can practically throw spoons at each other between their dining halls, and many Cabot House residents can stare out their windows into those of Pforzheimer House’s dining hall. Forcing everyone to trek to a single central...
...will realize that students are not leaving the gates with the kind of liberal education they should have,” says Rohit Chopra ’04, a member of CUE and chair of the Undergraduate Council’s Student Affairs Committee. Benedict H. Gross, who is Leverett professor of mathematics and chair of the Core’s Quantitative Reasoning subcommittee, wagers that “there will be some mutation of the Core.” One could argue that this has already begun, as the Faculty considers reducing the number of requirements from eight...
Meredith B. Osborn ’02 is a social studies concentrator in Leverett House. Her column appears on alternate Fridays...