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...term housing wasn’t so difficult to obtain after...
Joshua M. Zagorsky ’11, who was granted housing to do research for this year’s J-Term, said he came to last night’s town hall because he was curious about winter break programming options...
This past Monday, a mere 11 days after the application deadline, the College officially granted J-term housing to 1,316 out of the 1,404 undergraduates who applied—yielding a surprisingly high acceptance rate of 93 percent. Given the College’s ambiguous pre-deadline statements as to how many applicants it would allow to stay on campus and which student needs would actually translate into dormitory swipe access, the decision to permit almost all J-term applicants to stay at Harvard in January is both encouraging and commendable...
...noting, however, that this high acceptance rate could have been even higher if the College allowed other students to stay on campus provided that they were willing to forgo a meal plan during their stay. These students would live in their houses and do their work like other J-term residents, but would eat elsewhere. Given the low cost of maintaining such meal-free roomers, we see no reason why these students could not also be allowed to spend at least a portion of January at Harvard...
...Bobo spoke of the “the disastrous consequences of the war on drugs” and the need to reassess incarceration policy at a time when one in nine black men are in prison, often for crimes that would not have resulted in a jail term for a white person. “We need to ask ourselves, did it reduce crime? And did it make us all safer...