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...Advocates of British penal reform say that as Asbos are granted in a civil court, in which the burden of proof is lower, police often secure senseless orders. In a much-cited example, a depressed woman who tried to drown herself in the River Avon was given an Asbo in 2005 forbidding her from jumping into rivers. Others question the efficacy of the some 4000 Asbos granted each year; a 2006 poll by MTV Europe found that a third of young people see Asbos as a badge of honor...
...called the “Experiment”—an early 1970s exercise in co-educational housing that involved the exchange of female students from Harvard’s faraway Radcliffe Quadrangle dormitories with residents from the traditionally all-male houses between the Charles River and the Yard. It was a temporary arrangement—a trial—and, like most experiments, it was supposed to come...
...Alaska Klub has also endorsed a candidate. The group bases its endorsements on a candidate’s willingness to participate in the Polar Bear Plunge, an annual swim in the Charles River after the first snow or frost, said co-president Robert J. Gage...
...nine students holding a nine-day fast to protest the working conditions of the University’s security guards. And yet, through the silly and the serious, our politics have mostly been kept out of our rooms, away from the halls of Wigglesworth and crowded doubles of the River Houses—brushed off at the threshold like February snow and March mud.Sometime last winter, that all began to change for me. A friendly fellow Adams House resident showed up at the door, promising better lighting. Getting up at 10 a.m. in January allows for little more than...
After winning the Dead River Company Classic in Maine last weekend, the Harvard women’s basketball team (4-3) hoped to take that momentum into this weekend’s Fifth Third MU Classic in Huntington, W. Va. The two straight weekends spent on the road took its toll on the Crimson as it dropped its opener against Pittsburgh (5-2), 70-54. But Harvard was able to bounce back by securing a 69-66 win over Jackson State (3-5) in the consolation game of the tournament. HARVARD 69, JACKSON STATE 66 After a disappointing effort Friday...