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...dread. The clumsy balancing of bookbag and laptop case, the fumbling for ID and the uncomfortable eye contact with the book checker are rites of passage, destined to be replayed throughout the ages. In recent times, however, those already "broken in" may have found a new social obstacle: the umbrella...
Fitzgerald, author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning treatise on Vietnam, "Fire in the Lake," has devised a cunning booby trap. She equates the mystery of Reagan with the mystery of "Star Wars," his plan (visionary or goofy, depending) to erect an umbrella of space-borne laser and particle-beam weapons to protect America from nuclear attack. She examines Star Wars (the Strategic Defense Initiative, SDI) and pronounces it no mystery at all, but merely an expensive, stupid idea. The same, she suggests, may therefore be said of Reagan. He cooked up SDI, she thinks, mostly to deflect the nuclear-freeze...
...Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), an umbrella service organization, approved the legitimate posters. PBHA oversees the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM), which runs the living wage campaign. The campaign calls for a minimum $10 hourly wage for all Harvard employees...
...Club looked to Harvard for a lifeline, and in 1986, the University purchased the land--but not the building--that the Pudding calls home. Since then, Harvard has acted as the building's protective landlord by leasing the building to the Institute of 1770-Hasty Pudding Club, the umbrella organization for all four affiliates. Even with this additional help, the club remains stunted by monetary woes and continues to allow the building at 12 Holyoke St. to fall further into disrepair--broken chairs in the theater, run-down wiring and dilapidated facades reveal the desperate need for renovation. Behind...
...Membership Coordinator William B. Decherd '01 concedes that while graduate board members must deal with all four organizations under the Institute's umbrella, their loyalties are evident. "It's my impression that the graduate board is mainly concerned with the preservation of our greatest Hasty Pudding Tradition, which is a long history of great performances, both musical and theatrical," he says. "But the graduates also recognize that an important element of the Institute is its social presence on campus...