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...month later, first-year students have canattend another social engagement between Ec 10problem sets. The President's Dance, hosted byPresident Neil L. Rudenstine and his wife,Angelica, in Annenberg Hall, is scheduled forMarch 20. The semi-formal dance is free, andfirst-year students will have the opportunity toschmooze with the president before thetraditionally happening dance scene gets underway...
...said she was proud of her tenure aspresident, which took steps toward universalkeycard access and cable television in the Houses,and brought about improvements such as fly-bylunches, frozen yogurt in Annenberg and thecreation of a new $25,000 student activities fundby the College...
They changed the tables in Annenberg last week. The new arrangement dismayed me greatly. Instead of long rows of tables, the first-year dining hall transformed for a few days to cute sets of two tables pushed together as squares. I'll admit that the setup did lend Annenberg some appropriate ambience for the special brunch to match the solemnity of its busts and stained-glass windows. But the big squares lacked a certain functionality...
...table, much like a WWF ring is called the squared circle. Somebody wanted to create little self-contained units of eaters. "I think it's more sociable," one of the card-swipers told me. "We'll probably try this for a few weeks." If all went well, I figure, Annenberg could boast a Grays West square, a rugby square, a Stuyvesant square and possibly a table, home to much revelry, of prospective math/physics double concentrators...
...Sunday night the tables in the 'Berg had returned to their old positions. Luckily, a "few weeks" doesn't mean very long in Annenberg time. Now when I spy someone I want to eat with, I can choose to sit across from him or her and have a meaningful conversation instead of shouting across a table filled with the person's dormmates. What I've enjoyed most about Harvard is the absolute freedom of the life. Where it clashes with "community," I'll take the independence any time...