Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just want to write an autobiography," says Evans. "I want it to be a serious book that might be useful for students and other people...
WHETHER students and Harvard administrators want to admit it or not, nocturnal observations and dining experiences over the past two years have convinced me that several University dining halls face a serious and potentially hazardous infestation by large, disease-carrying rats...
...presence of rats on such a scale poses a serious health threat. Rats--carriers of disease and disease-infested parasites--are viewed by health officials as a serious health hazard. In New Hampshire, where my parents own a restaurant, health officials would have ordered Winthrop's dining hall to close until the rat problem was eliminated or at least placed under control...
INDEED, several Harvard dining halls--certainly Winthrop's--are sitting on what are essentially festering rat nests. Harvard officials have not addressed this serious problem and potential health hazard effectively. Having a weekly visit by an exterminator is not enough--especially when it is clear to service personnel and residents alike that the problem is becoming more acute rather than subsiding...
...Harvard community has been lucky that rats on grills and salad bars have not led to any serious health problems. But this is a health gamble Harvard should not continue much longer. Closing the dining halls with the most severe infestation problems may perhaps be a bit of an overreaction at this point (perhaps not), but the upcoming spring break affords Harvard with an excellent opportunity to finally address a problem it has not largely skirted...