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...main attraction on the tours of recruited athletes, an impressive display of Harvard's devotion to its Division I athletic programs. Harvard fields 41 athletic teams and the majority of these teams, whether in or out of season, have a weekly weightlifting routine. The Cage was easily the locus of the athletic community, a place to workout in the company of other intensely training athletes...
...face it. All the "Hello Days," "Springfests" and "Gala Balls" in the world aren't going to make students respect and support the Undergraduate Council. It's honest work on relevant matters, responsible stewardship of funds and holding an ear to the ground that will make the council the locus it so desperately and incompetently tries to be. That's something we'd cheer...
Their concern is that under the present arrangement, where the offices of ethnic student groups are few and far between, communication and interaction between groups is difficult. A multicultural student center would be a locus around which ethnic student groups could congregate and would be a place for the speakers, meetings and study breaks of ethnic and interethnic student groups...
...Crimson can serve its readers best if its pages, specifically its opinion pages, are a central locus for campus dialogue. If at some point in the year you want to express your opinion in the paper, please don't hesitate to write a letter to the editor. The letters section of the paper exists exclusively for this purpose. If you think something's great or something stinks on campus, page two of The Crimson is also available to publish student opinion pieces as Guest Commentaries five times each week...
Siberia is much, much more, however, than the locus of past political evil. For every person sent unwillingly to exile in its arctic wastelands, many others came to hunt, trap, fish, log or mine. The harsh life drove many back, but others stayed, captivated by the sublime beauty of earth's greatest northern landscape. Vitali Menshikov, an oceanographer by training, came to the Kamchatka peninsula in the Far East 27 years ago. He has returned to Leningrad only once; instead, he has used his vacations to take expeditions--61 so far--on ski and foot through this breathtaking land...