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...Yeah, parties here are, like, pretty safe. No one’s, like, puking or anything. I mean, they have, like, the campus po’ and everything,” says Wellesley junior Christina S. Yang, a leggy girl in fishnets and a short skirt...
...Harvard-endorsed parties and programming for the planned campus pub. Harvard’s women would be better served by democratizing a social scene dominated by all-male institutions than by meeting rooms. Only when women do not have to stand outside a final club mansion in a short skirt and heels, hoping to be judged “hot” enough to have a social life, will substantial progress be made towards mitigating gender inequalities amongst Harvard students. To this end, Harvard should also be prepared to collaborate with existing women’s social organizations on campus?...
...years to get here.MAKE IT OFFICIALBecause curfews and parietal rules have long been wiped from Harvard’s rule books, Magnuson and his roommates see no reason why coed rooming shouldn’t be an option for all students. Even without administrative approval, many students skirt the rules and live in coed rooms.Though heterosexual couples might disobey rules to live together, gay students have had an easier time requesting coed rooms.“I think our masters were definitely more receptive to our proposal considering that Benet is gay,” says Azzurra...
...student of fine arts at the University of Melbourne, Hanssen Pigott was required to make pilgrimages to the rooms of European painting at the NGV, but this "very young 19-year-old in a dirndl skirt," as she later wrote, preferred the road less traveled. En route she would find herself spending hours with the gallery's collections of ancient Chinese and Korean ceramics. In the green celadon glaze of a Koryo Dynasty bowl or the elliptical lid of a Song court vessel, she found pieces of perfection - and the source of her art. It's a discovery wonderfully echoed...
...Until Thursday, the Bush administration maintained that its need to extract time-critical intelligence from suspected terrorists required it to skirt the Geneva Convention and other international niceties that obligated the administration to treat terrorists the same as conventional prisoners of war. In recent weeks, it has made a last-ditch effort to at least exempt intelligence agents from the more stringent guidelines...