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...Winthrop juniors with a surprise announcement over the House’s e-mail list yesterday morning.The e-mail declared the end of “n+1” housing for seniors in Winthrop—where n is the number of residents—a perk that the House’s oldest students have traditionally enjoyed after rising through the ranks of “n-1” and “n” housing. The announcement was met with a flurry of responses from confused and angry residents.While rising seniors will continue...
Within Harvard’s gates, sororities may seem like fish out of water, but in essence they have the social networking elements that sustain many groups on campus, though Hanger refers to this as simply a perk of the organizations. “It’s the extracurricular that I do because it makes me happy and I enjoy it so much,” she says of Theta. “I don’t do it because it’s going to help me with my professional life. It will, but that?...
...However, the physical proximity is not the only perk of the Harvard workplace that the couple cites...
...airlines charge passengers for services that were once complimentary - food, extra legroom in coach, even checking bags (thanks Spirit Airlines) - JetBlue is about to give us, for free, a brand new perk: e-mail, BlackBerry service and instant messaging from the air. Starting next Tuesday, Dec. 11, the "BetaBlue" Airbus A320 will be trying out the system on its runs between cities like New York and San Francisco for the next six months. It will then be rolled out system-wide...
...Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, also acknowledges the virtues of Google, saying, “If the fastest way to [provide open access] is to involve a commercial company, then it makes sense to me.”Weinberger points out another perk more pertinent to the Harvard community. “One of the great advantages of digitized information is it’s far easier to chase down dead ends,” he says. For Weinberger, the importance of digitization is primarily found “one level of abstraction up from...