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...Solomon has a special rooming situation in Cabot House—she shares a “fairly large crowded double” with her boyfriend, Matthew T. Valji ’08 (“We did some negotiation with our house master,” Solomon says). But she feels that her own dating experience at Harvard has been drastically different from those of her friends. While Solomon has been in a happy relationship for her four years at school, she believes that most people at Harvard are dissatisfied with their experiences here...
...There's little research on what makes for a successful merit-pay system, but several factors seem critical, says Matthew Springer, director of the National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt University. Denver's program includes many of them: a careful effort to earn teacher buy-in to the plan, clarity about how it works, multiple ways of measuring merit, rewards for teamwork and schoolwide success, and reliable financing. In fact, Denver's voters agreed to pay an extra $25 million a year in taxes for nine years to support the program...
...spite of several transportation mishaps, Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 and Randall S. Sarafa ’09 were inaugurated as Undergraduate Council (UC) president and vice president last night. Outgoing UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08, who was supposed to swear in his successor, was stranded in New York after his car was towed. Partway through Sundquist’s inaugural speech, outgoing UC secretary Kyle A. Krahel ’08 arrived, after being delayed by a bike accident. Still acting as vice president, Sundquist swore his running mate in, and Sarafa gave...
...hall, grand as it is, into a useable venue for opera is no small feat and the set designed by Thalassa G. Raasch ’09 is a success because its functionality makes the most of a challenging space. A backlit screen offers the opportunity for stage director Matthew M. Spellberg ’09 to display two locations to the audience at the same time. The one major set change is seamless as two large doors open to replace a living room with a garden landscape.The talented cast fills Raasch’s set well, using both their...
...year’s production of “Cosi Fan Tutte” (February 8-9 and 13-14) marks the 15th anniversary of the Dunster House Opera (DHO) series. To learn more about this year’s opera, The Harvard Crimson caught up with stage director Matthew M. Spellberg ’09 and musical director John M. Sullivan ’09. Spellberg and Sullivan worked the DHO’s “Marriage of Figaro” last year as well. At last year’s Arts First festival, Spellberg took his opera...