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...they are not allowed to support a candidate or advocate or dissuade a voter from voting for a candidate. Ingrid Schorr (a.k.a. “Maura B. Formi,” the ‘B’ standing for ‘Bucks’), a non-resident tutor in Adams House, joined because “it combines dress-up and political theatre...
...Otto Coontz, a resident tutor in Adams House and long-time patron of the store, doubts that the store’s successor could fill the off-beat niche...
...about as likely as getting government concentrators to do all of their section reading. Now that Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 has extended party hours in the Houses to 2 a.m., students can shake it without worry of a resident tutor knocking on the door just an hour after midnight. This tentative change is long overdue—and it should remain permanent...
...more likely that students will choose to register their parties with House officials. Party registration is technically required for all parties held in Harvard dorms, but many undergraduates flout the rule because they don’t want to be subject to restrictions and increased oversight. If the resident tutor doesn’t know there’s a party on, and he or she doesn’t find out about the unregistered gathering, then cheating the system has definite rewards—no party hours, no restrictions. But now that registered parties can last longer, resident tutors...
Despite all this, the party hours extension will undoubtedly find its foes. Neighbors will worry that it will make things louder later, and the crochety-resident-tutor contingent will bemoan the added liberty. Yet after two weekends of extended party hours in six Houses, it looks as though the naysayers’ fears do not hold water. We hope that Gross will brush off such complaints and continue to recognize the importance of undergraduate social life by making this change permanent...