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...prediction that our society will "perhaps meet once, maybe twice," we would like to take this opportunity to announce that our third meeting will be held in the Winthrop House Owen Room, on May 8th at 6:00pm. Dr. Murray Heflant will speak about his frustrations as a neurosurgeon stationed in Japan during the Vietnam War. Our fourthmeeting, scheduled for the week of the 15th, will feature Dr. Susan Pauker of Harvard Medical School, an expert on genetic testing and its ethical and social implications. The Hippocratic Society...
Cambridge police arrested a man who identified himself as Christopher Chilgren of St. Paul, Minnesota on Winthrop Street after he allegedly caused a disturbance at the House of Blues, a jazz bar off Harvard Square...
...HARVARD NAME does not exactly connotate images of burly men with purple helmets on motorcycles weaving in and out of traffic on one-way Cambridge streets. But don't tell that to a particular group of juniors who share more than just a suite in Winthrop house. Of the five residents of this suite, two (Jamie McPartland and Ethan Maniatis) currently keep and use motorcycles at Harvard, encouraged by the original leader of the pack, Gaston de los Reyes, and a third (Eric, "Dwayne" Plaks) has big plans to do so in the near future...
Most of the bikes point to easy parking as the major advantage to the motorcycle over the car. McPartland, part of the Winthrop suite, often rides his Maxim 550 Yamaha bike between Winthrop and his classes in the yard. "If I can go some-where where there's an option between walking and riding, I'll ride." When asked if this made him feel lazy, McPartland responded with assurance, "I feel lazy regardless. It doesn't matter." But Rich Beukema, a senior in Winthrop who has ridden across the country three times on his bike and currently rides a Honda...
...motorcycle craze catching on with the greater Harvard community? Most of the bikes I spoke with think this is the case. "I've seen a lot more people with motorcycles," Millan says. Regardless, the Winthrop gang has big plans for the future. Maniatis announces confidently that as a rooming group. "We plan to have a fifteen bike collection." McPartland agrees, "We are all going to live next door to each other and swap bikes...