Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should feel a little ashamed, perhaps, that the entity we've feared for so long is just like us. That rock you skipped across the river last week might have been from Mars or the moon. The stranger you spoke to just yesterday might be a legal immigrant from last year or two centuries...
...perfect harmony, and yet within its walls lies a world divided. With last week's handing-in of blocking forms, the Radcliffe Quad versus the rest of Harvard's campus has become a battle on everyone's mind, but it's not simply a question of Quad versus River. The real issue is whether forced integration is a good idea that will benefit the Harvard community...
...effort that would virtually rid the University of an obvious separation between Quad and River residents or black and white, this year is the first try at randomizing upper-class housing. First-years may "block" with up to 16 people of either sex and room with up to the same number of the same sex. While next year students will live in a house that already has an identity--artistic, athletic or whatever--in about three years, the houses theoretically will be completely mixed...
Watch out, River residents--Quadlings are traveling in style. It's a bird, it's a plane, it's...the super-shuttle...
...despair too much about randomization. Sure, the Quad is far, but when you have the shuttle of all shuttles to carry you light as air from place to place, what does it really matter? Just step on in, relax in the climate-controlled interior and thumb your nose at river people as you glide...