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Such absolute estrangements may not be the norm, but experts who study family relationships believe they are on the rise. Psychologist Carol Netzer, author of Cutoffs: How Family Members Who Sever Relationships Can Reconnect, thinks that today's broader cultural freedoms have made it easier for people to say goodbye to traditions and to relatives. "The nuclear family is not as tight as it once was," she says. Some rifts reflect larger trends. The Woodstock generation, Netzer explains, was full of young people leaving their families to lose themselves in drugs or join religious groups, political movements and communes. "Often...
Most people might not consider hours spent in a dark basement a whole lot of fun. Megan L. Buckingham '03, originally a child of sunny Laguna Beach, Calif., now spends a significant portion of her time in the basement-the one under Sever, to be more precise, the home of Harvard's video and film labs. But for Buckingham, who describes her video sub-concentration in Visual and Environmental Studies as "fun" and "something I just love to do," the subterranean hours are worth...
While future plans include a year in Brazil to shoot a thesis, practice Portuguese and have a lot of fun, hopefully under a Harvard sponsorship umbrella, Buckingham is fine where she is now, mostly in the basement of Sever, recombining the stories in her memory for other people...
...telling secrets: the whispering arch around the main entrance to Sever. This requires at least two people, some patience and low traffic. Especially good times to try are eleven and noon on Monday, Wednesday or Friday...
...uniform policy currently exists for evaluating applications, Illingworth said. Rather, he said the College looks at each request individually and makes a decision based on the time, audience and projected impact on other users of the area--Widener Library, Memorial Church and classes in Sever Hall...