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...Council has tried to address the current state of undergraduate housing by initiating a randomization review. A school wide survey is being tabulated now, and we hope to begin a campaign to equalize physical plant and tutorial staff facilities from house to house next fall. Along that same vein, we are thrilled to report that there are now 6 houses open to universal keycard access, as that battle continues...
Perhaps the most interesting battle Wednesday will be between Dartmouth senior Rob Simik and Blake, who is currently the top-ranked player in the nation by a wide margin. Simik enters the match with tremendous momentum after an upset victory against Yale's Jon Beardsley and after defeating Brown's Chris Wolf...
...that the "merger" was negotiated in complete secrecy. Even the Radcliffe staff was informed of the college's fate only last week. The Harvard and Radcliffe communities were presented with a fait accompli. And nobody likes those. Last Wednesday could have represented the culmination of a year-long campus-wide discussion on what is best for Radcliffe. Instead, we got a gleeful announcement from the top: "Hey, guys," they seemed to be saying. "Look what we did! Isn't it great>" Time will tell...
...Raven looks to the wide world to build other countries' capacities for sustainable development. Two areas that he regards as especially critical are Madagascar and the northern Andes. Madagascar has half as many plants as all tropical Africa (about 11,000), and the great majority are found nowhere else. The Missouri Garden has been active there since the early 1970s, helping train and support the country in evaluating and protecting threatened areas. In the northern Andes, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru are home to at least one-fifth of the world's biodiversity, including perhaps 60,000 species of plants, endangered...
This environment reporter's idea of interactive technology was to tap the computer case with a 12-in. adjustable-end wrench to correct vapor lock and improve e-mail reception. Mostly on instinct, he patrolled the environment outdoors and avoided the World Wide Web. The information superhighway vanished last year, he noticed, at least as an annoying metaphor, and maybe the World Wide Web would go away...