Word: pre-frosh
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During his first year, Jeremy N. Smith '00, now co-president of Demon magazine, says a screening of "Eraser" earned Demon precisely seven cents. "Good Will Hunting" fared much better a year ago pre-frosh weekend, raising about $1,000, but Demon has decided to quit while it's ahead...
...trying to take care of this poor girl, no one knew what would be the repercussions of taking her to University Health Services (UHS). Would she get in trouble? Would my friend and her roommates be punished by the University for something they had no part in? Would the pre-frosh who had originally acquired the alcohol have their standing here next year thrown into jeopardy? Would the hosts be the victims of disciplinary action for not monitoring their pre-frosh's every action, thus letting her drink herself into oblivion...
...dangerous state of affairs when a Harvard student's fear of University disciplinary or legal action discourages or prevents him or her from taking action, such as bringing a drunken underage student or pre-frosh to UHS--an act that might potentially be critical to that person's safety. Thus, since the University's top priority is the safety of its students (and pre-frosh), there does, apparently, exist a policy that no disciplinary action will result from taking a dangerously inebriated person...
...taken to UHS. It should eliminate any inhibition that students might have about taking an intoxicated fellow student to UHS. But if it is so poorly publicized that no one knows about it--and no one that night was sure even of the policy for Harvard students, much less pre-frosh--then the policy is ineffective. The fear of disciplinary action still discourages people from making sure that a fellow student whose alcohol consumption may have reached dangerous levels receives all appropriate medical attention...
Certainly Monk is not the first to deem this ground holy, as any number of euphoric pre-frosh wandering around last weekend demonstrated. But one of the hallmarks of the performance was Monk's uncanny ability to infuse the everyday with a simple, unadorned spirituality. The Service, according to Monk's literature, "celebrates the universal quest for spirituality" with a mixture of seemingly simple choral chants, organ music, processionals and poems that span both history and religion. With the combination of these differing elements Monk successfully avoids the always enticing "universal answer for spirituality" so popular with televangalists...