Word: mid-years
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...Undergraduate Council’s expression of support for allowing visiting freshmen from Tulane University to apply to transfer to Harvard mid-year came down on the correct side of an emotional issue. A little generosity and bending of the rules will not hurt anyone, least of all Tulane, and it will make a massive difference to our fellow students...
...students from staying in Cambridge next term. Fortunately, there was no such public announcement, and Harvard has no normative obligation to satisfy the interests of Tulane or Loyola. On the contrary, out of a sense of compassion and sympathy, Harvard ought to give visiting students an opportunity to transfer mid-year, even though visiting Harvard students are ordinarily barred from transferring...
Meanwhile, as tensions about representation mounted on the group’s perimters, internal disputes plagued the executive board. The social chair—a non-Eastern European student—left mid-year, and members complained about weak leadership and communication problems. Some also criticized the organization’s lack of involvement in the Tsunami relief efforts, accusing the board of organizing mediocre events that generated low enthusiasm and attendance...
...manifesto for how patterns in sound and in culture result in artistic creation. Miller is releasing his newest album, Drums of Death, a collaborative effort with Slayer’s Dave Lombardo, Public Enemy’s Chuck D., and Meat Beat Manifesto’s Jack Danger, before mid-year...
...while watching people trickle in from warm-weather intersession trips cracking inside jokes in the dining hall in groups of eight to 12, you begin to feel very small. You are a floater, a piece of paperwork for the house administration, and, more often than not, especially mid-year, you are the disappointing replacement of a close friend either graduated early or gone abroad. It feels immediately like a mistake, and you miss your old friends and you miss warm arms. It does not feel like home...