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Huaou Yan ’10, who is one of Hawley’s roommates in Mather House, said he was not surprised when Hawley was chosen to appear on the show...
...Adam S. Travis ’10 is a social studies concentrator in Mather House. Akshata Kadagathur ’11 lives in Wigglesworth Hall. They both volunteer at the Cambridge homeless shelter...
...doubt that they weren’t in the 1970s and 1980s when HoCos were a “big” event and FAS rarely missed quorum. Randomization has obviously hurt House life, but I don’t think that gets to the root of changes either. Mather HoCo, the major anomaly in House life, frequently has 60-80 people at its meetings...
...open forum on Wednesday, Mather House co-Master Sandra Naddaff ’75 suggested many reasons why Mather HoCo has been so popular over the past four years, but a few stuck out for me: her open acknowledgement of the importance of dialogue with students about decisions concerning House life, her respect for students’ maturity, and her desire to work with students, even about prickly issues such as alcohol...
...Mather is any indication, the key to ending democratic apathy among students (and possibly faculty members) is an increase in responsibility, power, and respect. Students have already recognized that the Empire of the Central Administration has maligned them—will the Faculty come around as well? We have some preeminent professors here that write about democracy and its discontents (hi, Professor Sandel). I only hope that their research gets applied to Harvard before everyone forgets the opportunities that a College community provides for experimenting with its governance...