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Beginning at 8 a.m. tomorrow morning, eager freshmen may open their doors to find themselves faced with a concrete-loving Matherite or a suburban Quadling. For the first time in recent memory, Housing Day news—both good and bad—will be delivered to the Class of 2011 by residents of their future Houses. In lieu of volunteers from the College Dean’s office, who have delivered the letters with housing assignments in the past, student House Committee (HoCo) members will assume the role this year. Over the past two years, several HoCo chairs have...
...admirer of Jane Austen. During the last week of Bowen’s life, Weston said that he and his wife stayed with other family members and friends by Bowen’s side and read Pride and Prejudice to her in its entirety. As a teenager in suburban New Jersey, Bowen was a top student who took some of the most difficult classes at her high school. “Craigen was the older sister that every sibling should have,” Weston said. “By watching what she did, I knew what I should...
...stretched to its thematic conclusion. The characters seem trapped in this sort of stasis themselves. Their quick portraits are not deep enough to prevent easy categorization and stereotypes: the young punk railing against the world, the exotic dancer dreaming of bigger things, the sensitive homosexual artist, the paralyzed suburban housewife. Whether or not these typings are ultimately truthful seems like an intriguing question at the beginning of the book, but as it progresses, the extensive rumination on the characters’ roles fails to go anywhere or reveal anything about their nature.The book is structured like a TV drama, incessantly...
...that sheet resonates," said a former resident of the Maltby area who now works at a large out-of-state architecture firm and does not want to be identified. "The arsons were terrible and stupid, but it's hard not to be cynical of claims of sustainability by suburban developers...
Still others, in a sign of the depth of distrust for developers of such suburban projects, suggested the fires were deliberately set in an effort to get some financial return, via an insurance payment, on the homes - none of which had sold since their opening last summer. Gutt, the FBI special agent, said authorities were not ruling out any possible motives, noting that the banner and other unspecified evidence recovered at the crime scene had been sent to the FBI lab in Quantico, Virginia, for analysis. "I don't know where the facts will take the case," he said...