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Proximity is of such fundamental importance at Harvard that student groups will prefer working out of Yard and river dorm rooms irrespective of the quality of facilities at the Quad. Not even a Quad chateau could mitigate the horrors of a ten-minute trek on a cold winter day with inconvenient shuttle times. And to think it has been a warm winter. What happens when we get a blizzard...
...SOCH’s distance from the Yard also affected the Dems’ willingness to use it. “We, unfortunately, hardly ever use Hilles. The reason, of course, is the fear that moving most of our events to the Quad would cannibalize participation from freshmen and River upperclassmen.” McLoughlin wrote that overcoming the mental obstacle of the trip to the Quad would be largely up to students themselves. “I have to admit that I find it puzzling as to why students never complain about the distance to the Quad when there...
Despite these myriad disagreements within the community, February marks a moment of unity for blacks on campus, as we collaborate for Black History Month to produce a series of lectures, dinners, screenings, discussions, and of course, celebrations, on topics as diverse as Nile river reclamation, politics in Liberia, black media and consumerism, misogyny in hip-hop, and increased faculty diversity...
...situations like these, it is obviously difficult to communicate with Coca-Cola to tell them, “Don’t worry, I’ll pay 10 more cents for this can of Coke if you don’t pollute the Ganges River.” But, in some forms of protests, this dialogue is possible, such as the recent campaign on Harvard’s campus against Coca-Cola...
...midst. At the end of the War of Independence in 1948, the Israelis held a C-shaped majority of the land that ran from Galilee in the north to the Sinai Peninsula in the south, leaving the Arabs only a central ear from Jerusalem east to the Jordan River and the tiny sliver of Gaza. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs fled their villages for Jordan, for Gaza, for the West Bank, for other Arab countries. Many landed in squalid refugee camps, where they live on now. The physical proximities of the land, and the hatreds that filled them, were...