Word: massing
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...bedrooms, structural updates, and social spaces. Existing undergraduate rooms were designed to house fewer students than they do, and are in dire need of being reorganized to eliminate walk-throughs, crowded doubles, and cramped common rooms. In conjunction with the College’s decision to re-open Mass. Hall to freshmen, restructuring the Houses will hopefully help to alleviate the housing crunch that precipitated the University’s profoundly unpopular decision to abruptly end transfer admissions for the next two years...
...very first game we played and has had to work and is trying to work to continue that level of play,” sophomore Delia Pais said. Halpern continued to show her strength on the field when Harvard eked out a 14-13 win against Brown. The Longmeadow, Mass. native slammed in three goals, including the game-winner with 7:27 to play. “It was a battle all over the field up until the end,” senior Caroline Simmons said. “We pulled away with the win due to some key shots...
...Finally, in Africa, the colonial invasion has long receded, yet its comprehensive effects persist clear as day. Last November, PetroChina became the world’s largest corporation, profiting all the while from the murderous state of affairs in the Sudan, where Khartoum-sponsored mass murder persists in Darfur. Meanwhile, UBS, the Swiss financial services giant, facilitated PetroChina’s rise by hosting its Shanghai IPO—without considering the bargaining power it held to enact change in one of the world’s most neglected, most devastated quadrants. Mere greed seems to have...
...undeniable that the state of Massachusetts has many fiscal problems, and the prospect of the University tax highlights this monetary desperation. Patrick’s plan to open casinos—with specific blueprints for three different gambling sites in Boston, Western Mass., and the South Shore—would be a well-reasoned way to generate the needed revenue. The casinos would bring in an estimated $400 million in annual revenue, and would be a boon to these areas. It is crucial, however, not to disrupt the fabrics of the communities, and because of this, the casinos should...
...While Representative Barney Frank ’62, a Democrat from Newton, Mass. who is one of the nation’s most prominent openly-gay politicians, pushed through a revision to the Solomon Amendment in 1999 that exempted financial aid funding from the monies that the government could deny, Congress strengthened the law again in 2002 by decreeing that the entire university could lose its federal funds if one of its constituent schools did not comply with the amendment’s requirements...