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...Great Mausoleum takes its architectural inspiration from the Campo Santo in Genoa, Italy, and features 11 terraces, each named for a flower and filled with its own set of luminaries. Jackson will lie in the Holly Terrace, sharing proximity with Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and Carole Lombard. And Jackson will not be far from the comic Red Skelton, whom he once befriended. "Red was very fond of Michael and would no doubt find humor in the fact that they will be spending eternity together," says a Skelton friend...
...tomorrow and lasting until the end of October, when it may prove difficult to congregate outside given Cambridge’s inclement weather, the chairs and tables will be placed near the Science Center, Memorial Hall, the Old Yard, Lehman Hall, and Boylston Hall. Harvard University Dining Services will set up Crimson Cash-friendly food stands featuring organic offerings and Mediterranean foods at many of the new seating areas...
...students will no longer be hunkering down in library carrels preparing for final exams. Instead, undergraduates will be pursuing self-directed activities on campus or will be required to vacate the premises. Unfortunately, that choice, which should rest with students, instead depends largely on the whims of a committee set up to grant approval to those interested in staying...
...while the limits on J-Term housing have been largely billed as a necessity of budget restrictions, similar to other cuts undertaken recently by the university, we sense that the primary reason for limiting housing during January actually stems from a very different set of concerns—namely, fear in the administration that students will misbehave without highly structured activities to occupy their time and without a full residential staff to monitor them. In April, Dean of Students Evelynn M. Hammonds said that after the decision was made not to provide January programming, administrators did not want idle students...
...parents to come around. They showed up one day at a lecture without telling me, and they heard testimony of lives changed - and they saw that my family was doing fine, that my house was relatively straight. They did an about-face, but I had to be willing to set aside their opinions if they had continued to disapprove...