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...dining halls. Suffice it to say that we have long ago forsaken the grey smock and matching bonnet of the 17th century, but just what kind of people are we to be so well-attired these days? This past weekend, I pushed myself to come down from Mather Tower, the concrete structure incongruously named after the notable Puritan, and took to the streets in search of an answer to that question. First, I meet with friends at a sushi restaurant. We are seated in a back room where large parties are sequestered from the intimate parties in the restaurant?...
...underrepresented racial and ethnic groups to run. PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDER FELLED Magnus Grimeland ’07, who launched a surprisingly-successful “outsider” presidential campaign last year that won him second place with 912 votes, is a UC outsider once again. Grimeland, last year a Mather House representative, faced a competitive race against two other dedicated incumbents; he proved a casualty of the elimination of one seat from each house on the UC. The issues the UC faces this fall encompass the spectrum from academic to social. One issue dear to every Harvard undergrad that...
...Physics winners George Smoot of U.C.-Berkeley and John Mather of NASA have long feuded over discoveries they made while both were at NASA trying to prove the Big Bang theory. Mather was infuriated when Smoot, in 1992, announced some results of their collaborative research in what Mather alleged was a grab for solo glory. But after they won the prize last week, the pair seemed buddy-buddy again. Nothing brings people together like shiny gold medals and a check for $1.4 million...
...photographs in “Adventures in IR-Land” are grey and strange, with a slippery artificiality that has the effect of collapsing distance. That is to say, they look like Mather House, except they’re beautiful. Currently on exhibition in Mather’s Three Columns Gallery, these photographs are perplexing, visually arresting works. For the gallery’s curator and director, Amber J. Musser ’02, they also reflect a deepening understanding of Three Columns’ place in the house community. Artist J. Michael Sullivan made the digital photographs...
Lena Chen ’09 is a sociology concentrator in Mather House. When she is not braving the winter in a miniskirt, she writes a sex blog at www.sexandtheivy.com...