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Despite this support from the senior class committee, the crowd at Club Café was perhaps a little too exclusively non-exclusive. Though the event was advertised through the senior bar and BOND e-mail lists, relatively few people made the trek into Boston. “It was a pretty low turnout, maybe 10 to 15 people,” says Lee-Sean Huang ’03, who attended the event. “But for the people that went, I think it was a chill time...
Nearly every Thursday night, Dunster House residents Carla D. Martin ’03 and Matthew M. Pereira ’03 make the trek on foot from Dunster to ManRay’s Campus club night. Having walked the route those many nights, Martin and Pereira wished for a mode of transportation to match their fabulousness...
...Trekkers, though, are scrupulously monitored. Much of Sikkim is forbidden to foreigners, and access to the rest is governed by permits. Our trek was a seven-day slog toward the Goecha La plateau to see the sun rise on the world's third highest mountain: the mighty, 8,586-meter Kanchenjunga. Apart from a guide, it required three permits. But even if it wasn't illegal, wandering alone is a brow-furrowing prospect, for trails quickly extend beyond the reach of telephones. Dialing air rescue in emergencies is not an option, which is why, by the time we started, staff...
...climbed, energy for whining about food became a laughable luxury. The thin air sapped our strength, and it was enough to curl up early with a good book. The first two days of the trek were exhausting, as we ascended more than 2,200 meters. Vegetation dwindled from oaks and pines to oxygen-starved, dwarfish rhododendrons. To avoid altitude sickness, we began sleeping no more than 300 meters above the previous night's resting place. This meant some days of short treks simply to acclimatize. Hours were measured out with cups of tea and swapped books. At the Thangsing camp...
...generally unsafe place to party. Alcohol is, in the words of incoming Dean Gross, a “gigantic” problem. Yet the College has an opportunity, if it chooses to accept it, to create more safe and friendly party spaces so that students do not need to trek to the clubs...