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...until 2003, the Pudding was forced to conduct a truly open punch, complete with postering in the Yard, due to its brief stint as an official student organization subject to the College’s anti-discrimination policies. Those earlier efforts make the Pudding’s current project look restrictive by comparison. This spring, the club still punched over 100 students the old fashioned way—though each was told that he or she could bring along friends, creating something of a hybrid between openness and exclusivity...
Open punch is the brainchild of Kate C. Harris ’10, the Pudding’s President, who stewarded the initiative past the institution’s undergraduate and graduate boards, finding surprisingly little resistance along the way. She speaks about her project with the conviction of someone who senses she is on the right side of history: “I think it’s an exciting change for the Pudding, and I hope it will lead to more exciting change on campus in general,” she professes optimistically. Harris envisions that open punch...
During the summer, Kruse participated in the Program for Research in Science and Engineering while conducting his research. He also travelled to Princeton University to meet with some of the professors who conducted the Sloan Digital Sky Survey—a major project collating observational data about stellar objects...
...injury he sustained got bad enough that he was sent to the U.S. naval hospital ship Comfort for emergency treatment. Doctors might have been inclined to then send Kenzie to an orphanage - until a volunteer Haitian nurse on board, Edith Philistin, who was in contact with the UNICEF project, did some detective work and found the boy's relatives, who have since taken him in. "They thought he was dead [until] I pointed to the big boat in the sea," says Philistin...
...That's true; but the UNICEF registry, if it can really reach out to an appreciable number of Haitian kids, could at least show Haitians an alternative to their troubling tradition of discarding children in the face of poverty and all the country's other hardships. Meanwhile, the project may want to add the 33 children the Idaho Baptists tried to carry away. As the case gets resolved, they're being housed in a Haitian orphanage - which to child advocates like de la Soudiere is the real Philistine victory...