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...inebriated throngs prompted the Harvard University Police Department to shut the party down two hours early. The bust even led the Cambridge Licensing Commission to deny Mather House a liquor license for its spring formal and to temporarily rescind a permit that allowed any House dining hall parties to run past 1 a.m.“We wanted to throw a wicked cool party,” Fox says. “It was unprecedented and had many more people than we originally thought would be coming...
Likewise, last month’s effort by some undergraduates to press the College to rescind its offer of admission to Blair Hornstine seems to display the same level of meanspiritedness. Certainly people can disapprove of Hornstine’s suit against her school district to be her school’s sole valedictorian, but I do not understand the harm of letting her actions pass, other than a missed chance at vindictiveness
...unsettling example of how the Hornstine case has been received at Harvard is a petition that has been circulating over House listservs. The petition is quite simple; it reads, “We hereby petition the Admissions Office of Harvard University to rescind the admission of Blair Hornstine for her petty, childish actions regarding her school’s decision to have her share her valedictorianship with two other students.” The petition has garnered hundreds of signatures...
...high school seniors, a slim gap of 0.055 in grade point average (GPA) has set off a multi-million-dollar lawsuit, an act of vandalism and a petition to rescind Harvard’s offer of admission to one of the students...
Back in Cambridge, several widely forwarded e-mails directed students to an online petition to rescind Hornstine’s admission to the College. The petition had attracted more than 550 signatures at 2 a.m. this morning...