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Just when the last heaps of snow were melting into little puddles and students were playing with frisbees and dogs in the Yard, barriers went up: white lines with poles that warn students to keep off the grass as it is reseeded and blue-green paint that some first-years have thought appeared to mask the lack of grass...
Although we at Dartboard acknowledge the need for the grass to grow, we are disappointed that there is never a time that students can enjoy the Yard except for the first week in the fall semester. Soon after, cold and snow drive frisbee-players and sun-bathers away. In the spring, the clothes-line-like fence keeps students off to make the grass perfect for Commencement. It is our belief that alumni would actually contribute more if they saw patchy grass and a shabbier yard, examples that Harvard really did need their money...
...SNOW IT GOES...
This process may already have started. Ted Scambos, an analyst at the National Snow and Ice Center in Boulder, Colorado, looks at a satellite image and says, "I see an ice sheet in the process of collapse." But before anyone rushes to sell off property in Florida, he hastens to add that there are still too many unknowns and that any change could take thousands of years...
Even now with the snow melted, the Crimson must still travel to Rhode Island or even the Cape in order to find playable courses...