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...makeup of the candidate field indicated waning interest among upperclass students. While districts such as the North Yard had 19 people competing for six seats, both Lowell and Winthrop Houses had only three candidates for each of the house's five seats. Mather and Cabot Houses also did not get enough people...
Although HYPE organizers tried to keep this strictly a Harvard event by posting guards at all entries into the MAC Quad and blocking off the streets leading both to Winthrop and Eliot Houses, we wish the event had not been as exclusive. In trying to politically empower students by registering them to vote, it would have been more effective if students from the Boston area had been included in this event. We hope that the IOP and the Undergraaduate Council look at the overall mission of the event and not ignore the abundance of college students in the area...
...have to admit that my first impression of HYPE '96 was not a very favorable one. I was rudely awakened early Saturday morning to the sound of hammering and upon peering out of Winthrop House noticed that a large stage was being built right underneath my window. I was able to drift back to sleep for a little while, only to be awakened again by a repeated test of a very powerful audio system. My roommates and I--and no doubt countless dorm inhabitants around us--cursed and spat for a while and decided that if we had anything...
...that the success of HYPE '96 shows a new energy among undergraduates for matters political, there were those who were lured--and even forced--to the event by clever food orchestration. It was brilliant strategy on the part of the IOP to have the Kirkland, Eliot, and Winthrop dining halls close for lunch and serve outside instead. However, while it was a rather underhanded way to make hundreds of people attend HYPE who might otherwise have not, the crowds definately stayed around longer than they would have for the usual quick lunch...
...that the students living in the nearby river houses should have been given fair warning about the noise and disruption they might face--in a final insult, my roommate was even asked to show her Harvard ID as she tried to get past the barricades to get back into Winthrop House later in the day--the event was a great one. I hope we can continue to delude our first years into thinking that these days happen all the time by supporting even more terrific events like HYPE...