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...ROTC scholarship that lets students go to pricey schools, ROTC cadets are certainly some of the most committed people at Harvard. In addition to taking a full slate of Harvard classes, the cadets hop on a shuttle van daily at about 6 am to make the trek to MIT. There, they participate in grueling physical drills as well as classes in military science...
...major concern not addressed by the administration is truancy. Some Quad residents say they go to fewer classes because the annoyance of the trek outweighs lecture, particularly on cold winter mornings. “Someone should do a survey—classes are definitely way less attended by Quad students. People around here chill out more—that’s what makes it fun,” says Daniel H. Lassiter ’04. The same obstacles affect students with major extracurricular commitments. “The Quad is just too inconvenient,” says Ivona...
Regardless of how happy seniors say they are at the Quad, few dispute that it makes first-year friendships difficult to maintain, and leads to social self-segregation even in its randomized form. Many Quad residents don’t mind the trek. Likened by some to “moving to the suburbs,” the Quad’s distance forces its inhabitants to get to know each other, according to Currier House Committee President Lacey R. Whitmire ’05, and encourages a tight-knit, somewhat insular community. “To us, it?...
...Antarctica Adventure Explorer Ann Bancroft discusses her new book, which details her record-breaking 1,700-mile trek across Antarctica...
...Adaptability is the survival kit of illegal ?migr?s. The boys must be ready to change clothes, from peasant robes in Pakistan to business shirts in Iran to T shirts and jeans in Europe. They will have to travel by foot, bus, truck, ship?never knowing how long the trek will last or if they'll be shot, arrested or suffocated en route?and speed-learn the rudiments of new languages in the babel of countries they pass through. There's a sweet, sad scene in which Jamal teaches Enayat a few English words (snow, mountain) that would be of little...