Word: leveretts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...QUESTION of accidental kindness versus incidental cruelty. The heat-grate business. The Leverett House controversy. Senior Tutor Thomas A. Dingman '67 summed it up best: "It was an agonizing decision." Forgetting, of course, that agony is dual-edged. That agonized decisions beget agonized results. That agony is relative, contagious, common. That agony, like charity, begins in the home...
Last week, citing security, the University decided to place iron grates over the vents outside Leverett. The University. Capital "U." Followed...
That's because the grate covers that have been put up in front of Leverett House will remain, at least until Monday, and the damage has been done. We will meet Monday with House authorities to convince them that what they have done is wrong. (The fact that we may have to convince them is frightening in itself.) Their response has been "fair," given that they put the grates up in the first place, and it seems that it may simply take more time to have them removed than it did to have them set up, which is typical...
...know the reasoning for the covers--and the concern for security is a legitimate one. What is morally abhorrent is that the covers went up at all--on the coldest night of the year, with no warning to the men who used those worm places, or to Leverett students. It took more conscious effort and cost to cover those grates than to simply leave them open. It is evidence of a desire for simple solutions; to connect those men to a rash of thefts in Leverett simply perpetuates a myth about the homeless. If there were complaints, there should have...
Netting about $1300 a week, the Leverett House grill pays its employees $5 an hour. "We lost money for three straight weeks during midterms, but generally we make a profit," Lannon says...