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...Center will do, which is actually one thing that Susan pitched in her town-hall meeting, is a leadership development curriculum program that the whole governing body of a student group would do together.” The opening of the center in September will end a decades-long student effort to secure College support for women’s space on campus. A student-run women’s space opened in the Quad in 1971 with a $600 grant from the Radcliffe Union. But in 1990, more than 1,000 students petitioned for a College-sponsored center, arguing...
Harvard’s little red book, the Handbook for Students, is four hundred and twenty five pages long. Of those pages, two are devoted to student-run businesses, one details the “care of furnishings and personal property,” and seven are reserved for information about Harvard’s libraries. Only one miniscule section is reserved for “honesty”—about the same amount of space allotted to the section on “Nonpayment of Telephone Bills.”This is more than a mere inequity...
...Students should lobby for increased affordable housing, accessible legal aid, adequate income, and universal healthcare to fight homelessness, a panel of experts said last night. Cambridge Student Partnerships, part of a student-run nonprofit that teaches low-income individuals how to be independent and obtain governmental assistance, sponsored the panel. About 50 students gathered on the plush leather couches of the Lowell Junior Common Room to hear the five speakers. Panelists began by discussing the causes of homelessness. Macy DeLong, who said she was once homeless herself, focused on how mental health issues can lead individuals to lose shelter...
...event, organized by the student-run Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) in conjunction with College administrators, contrasted with past unsuccessful HCC efforts, including pushes to bring rap artists Snoop Dog and Wyclef Jean to campus. Both of those efforts resulted in “fiascos,” according to HCC Director Tyler O’Brien...
Katherine S. Wong ’07 knows the difference between a Vandercook press and a pearl platen. As the undergraduate press master at the Bow and Arrow Press, a student-run printing facility tucked under Adams House B-Entryway, Wong is fluent in the near-dead language of manual printmaking. But it’s not arcane terminology that attracts her to the craft. “Printmaking is a meditative activity,” says Wong, an aspiring neurologist and self-described laid-back Californian. “It takes a long time to do something relatively simple...