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...Perhaps more notable than the regulations themselves, though, is the fervor with which they have been enforced this winter. In mid-February, Eliot residents symbolically removed their pants during dinner in a peculiar protest of non-resident diners. And, last Tuesday, Adams resident Vincent M. Chiappini ’09 decided to take matters into his own hands to keep undesirables out of his dining hall. Donning shorts and a T-shirt, Chiappini sat on top of a lifeguard chair and wielded a bullhorn, shouting down interlopers and casting them out into the street...
House Culture: Peculiar, though generally positive. The Currier HoCo is dominated by maniacally devoted individuals who are willing to go to any lengths for house pride, and on Housing Day, you'll find them braving the Cambridge weather in barely-there Speedos...
...diagnosis is in, and Harvard Medical School is still a little under the weather—not from the common cold or chicken pox, but because of its faculty’s nebulous relationships with drug companies. The practice of pharmaceutical companies having contracts with medical professors is not peculiar to Harvard—collaboration and financial backing of doctors by pharmaceuticals is common in the field. What is unique at HMS, however, is that these relationships are not openly disclosed to the student body or the public...
Rising stars of the classical music world such as Albright face a peculiar set of challenges—besides a need for ruthless time management. Along with the delicate balancing act between music and academics, between NEC and Harvard, there lies as larger question. And perhaps this question is the eternal dilemma of the young: what will I do with my life...
...what it is, we really have a love for music and we have a very specific vision of what we want our music to be.” That “specific vision” doesn’t necessarily extend to the band’s peculiar name. “It just came out of a goofy conversation and kind of stuck,” said Costa, “[it’s] sort of reflective of how seriously we take ourselves,” . Check them out March 6th at the Cantab Lounge in Central...