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...want as my roommates for next year? What House will we be assigned to? How do I tell my best friend that our mutual “friends” refuse to let her into our blocking group because she smells like a fine stilton cheese? Did I just swipe a homeless man into our entryway? My little sister Kirsten, who is a freshman enduring this same process, sought my advice about blocking the other day. Being the sensitive big brother that I am, I ignored her and kept walking to the Science Center with my friends. After an angry...
...Can’t Hide, You Can’t Run”— which features a beat that Kanye already did for “The Black Album”—finds Rakaa taking a shot at Ronald Reagan. A swipe at a dead guy seems dated, and an inexplicable India.Arie reference doesn’t help anything either. Evidence just sounds tired rapping “’Click it or ticket’ / They forcing us to stay strapped.” The double meaning of “strapped?...
...hold impromptu meetings in the store displays. Every day seems to bring a new twist on the fundamental habit of consumption: there are pop-up stores, mobile stores, automated stores and, of course, the Internet. In Japan young women buy everything from subway passes to mascara with a swipe of their cell phones...
...key” from Hillel. They are observant Jews who cannot use electricity on the Sabbath, so they have to use a mechanical key to get into their dorms. Out of the seventeen freshmen dorms, only Hurlbut, Thayer, Massachusetts Hall, and Claverly have mechanical key access. The rest require swipe cards. But not all Shabbat keys are created equal. Austin M. Litoff ’09, a self-described orthodox Jew living in Thayer, faced a dilemma involving his Shabbat key. The key he received only opened the basement door, and from there he would be required to take...
...House replaced the pediment and put a door stop to prevent the slamming, but Lowell administrators think that ten years from now, with the possibility of increased traffic flow, it could fall again, outgoing Lowell House Committee (HoCo) Co-chair Neil K. Mehta ’06 said. Swipe access to the gate will be limited to Lowell residents in order to maintain not only its structural stability, but also to maintain the peace and security of the House, Eck said. “We don’t want Lowell House to be a traffic corridor for students from...