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...asset, but one of the institution’s most notable weaknesses. In Cambridge, I no longer wake to the chirping of birds. Their songs have been replaced by the Harvard shuttle’s boorish droning. The shuttle, like a persistent suitor, returns to its place beneath my Mather window every ten minutes from eight in the morning until four in the afternoon, offering up its garbled, biodiesel-tainted entreaties and refusing to take no for an answer. Worse than that, however, is the lumbering of the heavy machines across the way, which thunderously churn and bruise the earth...
...Travis Kavulla ’06-’07 is a history concentrator affiliated with Mather House. His column appears on alternate Mondays...
Piotr C. Brzezinski ’07 is a Social Studies concentrator in Winthrop House. Nikhil G. Mathews ’08 is a government concentrator in Mather House. Andrew M. Trombly ’08 is a philosophy concentrator in Eliot House. All of the writers are Crimson editorial editors...
Karl Frey lets people play with his art. For Interchange, his new exhibit at Mather House’s Three Columns Gallery, Frey painted sixteen landscapes on Lego blocks. He then disassembled them and asked friends to recompose them, thus actively involving the viewers in the process of art-making. Suddenly, art was participatory, an experience that involves what Frey refers to in his work statement as the “perceptional patterns of the culture.” That culture and its concurrent style is a movement rooted in American pop art that aims to make art accessible...
...bawdy parties raging inside 28 Perkins Hall some eight-and-a-half decades ago would have made the present-day Mather Lather seem positively Puritan. Harvard boys in ladies’ clothes danced and drank in the dorm room of Eugene W. Roberts, Class of 1922, allegedly “the ringleader of a vibrant homosexual subculture” on campus.This salacious scene is central to the story-line of William Wright’s latest book, “Harvard’s Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals.” But just as Wright?...