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Sittenfeld delves past stereotypes to locate universal truths and to defy readers’ expectations. As a senior, when Lee becomes sexually involved with her long-term crush, a popular class prefect, it is not he who requests secrecy, as one might expect—it is Lee. Having fantasized about this moment for three years, Lee is surprisingly uncomfortable with the outcome. This dissatisfaction with reality seems fully human and genuine...
Following negative student reaction to news that the Prefect Program would be cancelled, College administrators met with prefect board members last night to reassure them that certain components of the freshmen-focused organization may be retained. Monique Rinere, the new associate dean of advising programs, said Monday afternoon that the Prefect Program would no longer exist in its present form but would be “morphed into something else.” But at a meeting yesterday with Prefect Program board members, Rinere said the fate of the program would not be decided until the soon-to-be-formed...
...year-old Prefect Program will be abolished effective this fall, the new Associate Dean of Advising Programs Monique Rinere said yesterday in an interview.The program will no longer exist in its present form but will be “morphed into something else,” Rinere said. Rinere, who is just six days into her new post after arriving at Harvard from Princeton University, said the Prefect Program may be replaced with a peer advising system that matches upperclassmen with incoming freshmen the summer before they enter the College. Last night, members of the board of the Prefect Program...
...respect by successfully thwarting a score or more of major plots. Lately, however, some of the French force's luster has tarnished as allegations of torturing and framing suspects have arisen. Last week, an appeals court acquitted two Corsican nationalists of contracting the 1998 assassination of Claude Erignac, former prefect of Corsica and the state's highest representative on the island. Though upholding their conviction for involvement in 1994 bombings on the French mainland, the court cleared Jean Castela and Vincent Andriuzzi of participating in the conspiracy to murder Erignac. The trial laid bare many gaps - and some false evidence...
...business going on,” Abdallah said. THE FUTURE OF FUN A significant portion of yesterday’s meeting was taken up by a question and answer session on social programming run by Riley and Haan, who had met with representatives from the Crimson Key Society, the Prefect Program, and the First-Year Social Committee earlier in the afternoon. The meeting, organized by Riley, was the first in a series of meetings with student group leaders about the future of social programming that will be held now through March, Riley said. In the aftermath of the Wyclef Jean...