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...body. And once that day finally comes, when the little white envelope is delivered to your door, there’s an overwhelming sense that the results it contains don’t really amount to anything. Sure you’ve been placed into Adams or Currier or Mather, but what does that even mean? Thanks to randomization, the Houses have been stripped of any sort of personality, and with that, any true sense of community or House pride. After all, there isn’t much substance to a “community” of people...
...College should first consult those who ought to matter most—in this case, the parents on whose authority the College’s role in providing shelter is but an extension.Travis R. Kavulla ’06-’07 is a history concentrator affiliated with Mather House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays...
...considered several other Harvard-related matters at its meeting. Councillor Marjorie C. Decker, who chairs the Health and Environment Committee, also reported that the University will begin using low-sulfur diesel fuel in the vehicles used for its construction projects. City residents living near the construction site by the Mather, Dunster, and Leverett Houses had called for measures to decrease air pollution caused by the site, where graduate student housing is being built. In response to decreased Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority bus service to Cambridge, Councillor Craig A. Kelley asked City Manager Robert W. Healy to investigate the possibility...
According to a study published in 1996, black students had settled in the Quad, and Asian students were concentrated in Quincy. Eliot, Kirkland, and Winthrop were known as the “White Triangle.” But in fact, Mather held the highest percentage of white students, following a spate of racist graffiti there in the 1990s...
...This legislation wisely addresses the problem of plainclothes contractors who, unlike the uniformed Facilities Maintenance Operations workers and UNICCO janitors, often carry no form of identification. Though seemingly harmless, the gravity of this security risk became clear last October, when a convicted rapist was found roaming the halls of Mather House, posing as a fire-door inspector to try to enter student rooms. After the intrusion, some residents have become more vigilant about reporting visitors, causing an increased number of false alarms regarding suspicious persons. Increased student vigilance, of course, is always desirable. But this bill will also help...