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...know, the month-long period of fasting. People of Islamic faith choose to do it, forsaking food between sunrise and sunset. Here, upperclass students have to do it, forsaking non-greasy food for a week and a half. But while people of Islamic faith achieve a deeper sense of religious peace during their fast, Harvard students can only achieve a purple tongue during their fast...
Second, the college must improve the dining and transportation services it offers to upperclass students reporting early. Scores of us show up before the first meal of move-in week--Thursday's lunch--to proctor exams and host events for Orientation Week, train for athletic teams or table and poster for extracurricular recruitment...
...time to begin. With another summer unfortunately cut short by Harvard registration, upperclass students return to another year of sports, extracurriculars and, of course, classes. The start of the academic year also coincides with Rosh HaShanah, the Jewish New Year, which begins tonight. Rosh HaShanah ushers in a period of Jewish holidays whose predominant theme is that of introspection and repentance. The holiday is an appropriate match for shopping period in that sense: "What sort of person am I?" and "What could I have done better?" become "What sort of Harvard student am I?" and "What more could I have...
...buttercup." At special meals, Sandy, Anabela and the rest of the staff think up decorations for the dining hall that make it look like a themed playground. First-years come up only for a meal but they stay a long time, lounging on the grass and talking to upperclass students about good rooms (all of them) and asking house residents for a straightforward definition of a 'lambing'. There never...
...Yard seems to be a pretty safe place. Blue-light emergency phones dot the Yard, a Harvard University Police substation occupies the basement of Weld Hall and many gates of the Yard are locked every evening to protect first-years from the criminals of Cambridge. The knowledge that, as upperclass students, we are far less safe is disturbing. Does the administration think that since we are older we are just better at defending ourselves? The University should be taking steps to improve campus security but has chosen...