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...Officers received a call last Sunday, March 5, from someone outside of Winthrop House who shouted to police that he or she needed to be picked up. After searching the shuttle bus stop to no avail, officers attempted to call the person back. Someone who claimed that he or she did not place the call but that they knew who did answered the phone. Police were again dispatched to the area in order to speak with either caller but could not find them...
...look at their apparent “faults” because everyone (including you) has them. Instead, look for their unique qualities—the things that will personalize your Harvard experience. And if next year you need some time away from your blockmates, come over to Winthrop and hang out with us. We’ll be eating pizza on the futon and watching Will Ferrell. Eric A. Kester ’08 is an anthropology concentrator in Winthrop House. His column appears on alternate Thursdays...
...hand of geography is a very heavy hand,” University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) geography professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared M. Diamond ‘58 told an overflow crowd in Science Center B last night. The former Winthrop House resident delivered a lecture entitled “Continental Differences in Human History” to an appreciative audience that filled several lecture halls and numbered at least 800, according to a Harvard University Police Department officer’s estimate. This talk was the first in a series of three that Diamond will deliver...
...group, which aims to advance rock music by fostering community among student musicians, launched its first major event last night: an intercollegiate “Battle of the Bands” to showcase rock ensembles.Spanning three nights at Tommy Doyle’s Pub and Restaurant at 96 Winthrop St., the Battle of the Bands features five Harvard groups (Blanks., Linus, Major Major, Plan B for the Type A’s, and Maya) and four bands from nearby Boston colleges. Four of the nine acts performed last night, while the rest will take the stage on Tuesday. Two bands...
...creative writing, after two semesters of applications he had yet to be admitted to a fiction class in the English department. “I’d been trying my darndest,” he says ruefully. When he heard about a non-credit screenwriting workshop in Winthrop House, he tried his hand at that.The seminar, taught by Winthrop tutor Andrew Arthur, proved to be a godsend. Screenwriting provided a path for Smith not to “take [himself] so seriously.”Although Smith has since earned a place in Visiting Lecturer on African and African...