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...This is déjà vu, I said to myself when I saw the pictures of a flood of trash floating on a Jakarta river and bike commuters wearing masks to protect themselves from toxic diesel fumes in Kanpur, India. Those are the same scenes we saw in Kitakyushu and other cities in the 1960s and '70s, when Japan was notorious as the archipelago of kogai, or environmental disruption. I was one of the victims of the choking smog at that time. Asians are starting to put more pressure on their governments to tackle staggering environmental problems, but time...
...House life, met last Wednesday to discuss the proposal. In a blow to undergraduates, the Masters decided to cancel the Thursday night’s parties. Now, instead of two consecutive nights of coordinated events, large parties will be confined to Friday evening, and will take place in the River and the Quad simultaneously...
...severely limited—the original rationale behind planning parties that night was to maintain the momentum from the Harvard-Yale Pep Rally, during which thousands of undergraduates are expected in the Yard. After the Pep Rally ends, the reasoning went, the crowd could simply relocate to those River dining halls set to be used as party venues, rather than dispersing to smaller parties in smaller locations across campus...
...will be divided in two. Though the Harvard College Dean’s Office is quick with assurances that it will fund extra shuttles between the Quad and Harvard Square that night, the simple fact is that, with few exceptions, Quadlings will attend the parties in the Quad, and River-dwellers those in the River Houses. And no matter how much fun the divided Friday night party scene proves to be, the exciting possibility of having the whole College together on each of the two nights preceding The Game is now lost. The House Masters seem to have missed...
...continue cooperating to plan the weekend’s events, curtailed though they may now be. A promising proposal has been compromised, and that’s a great shame. But the modified plans still call for large, College-supported parties on Friday night at the Quad and the River, which is a whole lot more than nothing. With a little bit of fancy footwork in the planning, Harvard-Yale weekend could yet be the most exciting of the fall semester. The Masters’ recalcitrance aside, it’s up to student leaders to make it happen...