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...move on, three Leverett House residents decided a long time ago to improve nightlife themselves. The proactive partiers, roommates Wilson R.S. Prichard ’03, Aaron C. Lang ’03 and Jonathan B. Wood ’03, began throwing a weekly “Thirsty Thursday?? in the fall of 2001, featuring sangria as an honored and regular guest. By the time the spring rolled around, the party had evolved from six people sitting in a common room to a Leverett House institution...
...reputation of “Thirsty Thursday?? grew, so did the noise it generated, drawing complaints from some House residents. Early this semester, the Leverett House administration put its proverbial foot down, commanding Prichard, Lang and Wood to discontinue their weekly get-togethers. The roommates are now banned from having more than three guests in their suite at a time...
Prichard, a tall, slender Canadian with a slight but discernable accent, gestures broadly to explain that “Thirsty Thursday?? is a direct response to what he finds unpleasant about Harvard’s social life. “Fuck going out to Final Clubs or pretentious bars where there are people we don’t like,” he exclaims. “Why not just get our friends here with...
Charles J. Morrow’03, a weekly devotee of “Thirsty Thursday?? remembers one particular gathering when Prichard and one of Prichard’s close friends stood in the middle of the room while the rest of the guests circled around them and sang the U2 classic “One.” “‘Thirsty Thursday?? was focused on friends and being together. It was about appreciating what we have,” Morrow says...
...think it’s funny that [last night’s] vote counted, while Thursday??s did not,” Chapa said...