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Upon glancing at your front page on Nov. 3 and seeing the headline “Police to Up Quad Patrol” (news), I was filled with relief. The previous evening, a Harvard undergraduate had been mugged, beaten up, and robbed at gunpoint on the corner of Shepard and Garden streets, right outside the Quad. I was pleasantly surprised by how quickly Harvard and Cambridge’s community leaders had responded. How mistaken I was. Upon reading the article more carefully, I quickly realized that the increased police patrols in the quad were not in fact intended...
Although the Office of the President has pulled the funding it provided two years ago for extra Quad-River shuttles on the morning of the Harvard-Yale game, the shuttles will still run every 15 minutes this year, now courtesy of the Undergraduate Council (UC). But the UC member who co-sponsored the bill funding the shuttles, Amadi P. Anene ’08, said that the money from the UC is a one-time deal. “This is something that the President’s office and no other office should be in charge of doing...
...this de facto banning of the tailgate with the usual poisonous mix of flattery, self-congratulation, and simple idiocy that one has almost come to expect. (Remember, Harvard put a library office building in the middle of Harvard Square and student-group offices in a library in the Quad.) The College’s clueless attitude is best illustrated by the comment of Campus Life Fellow John T. Drake ’06 in a recent Crimson article: “Have we [Harvard] ever once not been attracted to a party because Yale students aren’t going...
...watching the Borat movie and not studying for midterms. High five! SATURDAY In light of events at Rebirth: the Christening of the New Currier TLR, FM feels the need to make the following announcement: if you are a freshman boy and you miraculously found your way to the Quad, congratulations! However, that does not give you the right to come up behind upperclasswomen and start grinding with the line, “It’s okay. We’re all drunk.” Just wanted to put that out there. Despite these flagrant party-fouls, Rebirth...
...stakes are high for the HBC. The company has performed in the Loeb only twice before—usually, they dance in the Quad. Hundreds of hours of work have gone into the production, and “American Grace” is proving to be an expensive one: its rising costs have spurred a dancer date auction and an alumni fundraising event...