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Steven M. Berzin ’72: The 1969 riots were right outside my window in Stoughton. I stayed in the room with my roommate for the most part. I think we might have gone to the door, but we didn’t go outside. My Math 21 TF had been arrested and he was always urging us to go to demonstrations like this. But I wasn’t supporting it—I thought it was awful, taking over a University building...
Blocking groups are imperfect means of distributing first-years to Houses, but they are preferable to arbitrarily consigning denizens of, say, Stoughton Hall to the Quad. The specter of forming blocking groups often goads reclusive first-years into engaging in more socializing than they might otherwise do during their first months at the College. Such a spur can be only a good thing for the social health of the campus. Conversely, much of the community of the Yard would be lost by moving to a plan like Yale’s. Because Harvard first-years have no House affiliation, only...
...James heads over to Stoughton to visit a friend from his FOP trip to Maine. The first-floor room soon fills up with fellow boarding school grads. “We mostly went to private schools, but we’re not exclusive,” says one guy earnestly. Shortly after, a gaggle of Abercrombie-clad women make an entrance and Billy Joel’s “Uptown Girl” blares from the stereo. Captain Morgan flows freely and the conversation turns to the oversized Head of the Charles poster on the wall and the semi...
...parties involving drunken semi-nudity generally are, this one is broken up at 10 p.m. by the dreaded proctor. Fisher and his friends wait out in the Yard while the Stoughton roommates meet with their proctor. They emerge as vanquished heroes soon afterwards, off the hook but under obligation to meet with their assistant dean of freshmen the following week for a talk on “mutual respect.” “That’s freshman year for you,” one guy says, shrugging. “It’s all about trying...
...party line and became a staunch advocate of reunification with China; in Taipei. DIED. MALCOLM KALP, 63, former American diplomat to Iran and one of 52 hostages held by Islamic militants for 444 days beginning in 1979, after his car was hit by a drunk driver; in Stoughton, Massachusetts. The U.S. Embassy's commercial officer in Tehran, Kalp was accused by the kidnappers of being a CIA officer, beaten for three attempted escapes and spent more than a year in solitary confinement before his release on President Ronald Reagan's inauguration day. CONVICTED. JAMES TRAFICANT, 60, nine-term U.S. Congressman...