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While the College has recently made much news in the tabloids with the acceptance and subsequent rejection of a killer and even more recently with the bizarre murder-suicide at Dunster House, an important administrative change has been hidden amidst the tumult. Over the course of the past few decades, the Harvard administration has succeeded in incrementally destroying the housing system. The houses are where we eat and sleep, where we make many of our closest friends, what we consider our little home within the sprawling academic empire around us. This year, the destruction has been completed; the decision...
Though the changes were overshadowed by the war and the general tumult of the times, integration of the houses would change the stubbly face of Harvard undergraduate life forever...
...than an unfailing source of solace, truth and support. During yet another all-night-long Expossession, I can call Menu Man at 4:30 a.m. and never fear waking and annoying him. He'll speak to me with love, truth and most of all, constancy. 24-7. In the tumult and uncertainly of my first year at Harvard, Menu Man is my rock. A source of unerring wisdom. The continuum of His tradition reassures me that the housing lottery and concentration decisions are transitory. Boyfriends, come and go, but Menu Man is for always. (He is the first person...
...prospect both excited and mortified me. Fantasy and reality merged, and I wasn't sure I could handle the responsibility of it all. My stomach hadn't been in such a tumult since I partook of the Union's bul gogi last month. What if I messed up? What if He thought I was a fool? I spent an anxious, sleepless night staring at my roommate's mattress. Finally, I got out of bed and did what I had done so many sleepless nights before: I dialed 5-5700. His voice instantly assuaged my insecurity. Before Menu Man had even...
...Deng's death in which the party will strive to demonstrate unity and calm. Yet this period, which could last several years, will be marked by the fact that no individual in the collective leadership commands the moral and political pre-eminence needed to retain power, especially amid the tumult of economic change. "Deng is probably the last Chinese to have this untrammeled, personalized political authority," says Andrew Nathan, professor of political science at Columbia University. "I don't see anyone coming along who has this authority...