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...alumni party will continue unaffected on the Soldiers’ Field parking area. But if the College and the BPD can’t reach a more reasonable agreement on a tailgate across the river, then the Undergraduate Council and HoCos ought to start brainstorming alternative tailgate ideas. (The MAC Quadrangle, for example, immediately jumps to mind as a smaller, though plausible, tailgate location.) If anything, Harvard students are known for their inexhaustible ingenuity, and we ought to be able to knock heads together to come up with something a little more palatable and a whole lot safer...
...woke up yesterday as involuntary extras in an Alfred Hitchcock film come to life. This year’s Harvard-Yale tailgate will basically be dry, we were told, and what’s more, the College’s most important recreational athletics facility, the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC), will be closed for renovations as of early next year.Well kids, it was fun while it lasted, right?But even as hyperactive Undergraduate Council representatives flood inboxes with petitions to “Save the MAC!” and House Committees hold late-night emergency meetings...
...Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) is shaping up to be the site of a possible face-off of students against administrators over the proposed timetable for renovations. Upset at plans to close the MAC for a revamp during all of next semester and the summer of 2007, two undergraduates are hoping that their campaign will force administrators to reconsider. “My primary objection is the way it was announced,” said Undergraduate Council (UC) member Ali A. Zaidi ’08. He maintained that there was no dialogue with students before the announcement. Zaidi added that...
Shape up or ship out. The Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) will close its doors for renovations all of next spring, keeping gym enthusiasts out from February until September. “The [MAC] will undergo a much needed, thorough renovation of its infrastructure, including replacing plumbing, renovating bathrooms, installing sprinklers, and improving accessibility,” wrote Robert Mitchell, Faculty of Arts and Sciences director of communications, in an e-mail. According to Mitchell, the renovations to the MAC in 2004 provided program spaces but did not address infrastructure. Renovations are scheduled to be finished in September 2007. Jennifer...
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