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...girl in Quincy wrote a letter to Senior Tutor Roger Thomas explaining why she should be allowed to keep her cat. Thomas xeroxed copies and sent them to Dean Epps and to the CHUL. The letter made some suggestions, including a system where-by students would register their pets with their Houses, and if others complained about the animal, the owner would be forced to give it away...
...seeing these four grey, automatically-closing doors on each floor. In this situation, you've got to import as much life into your room as possible, and a pet is perhaps the best way. "It's more human," one student said when asked why he kept a cat...
Obviously, there are some students here who aren't capable of caring properly for animals, and this is supposedly the reason for Harvard's opposition to keeping pets. Last Spring seniors in Quincy House left behind a cat, and when the custodian finally discovered the cat three weeks later, he was wild and had to be put to sleep. Superintendent John Allen, who's not much of an animal-lover anyway, remembers this incident and cites it as one good reason why we shouldn't keep pets. In Leverett this Fall, one owner was so negligent that...
...training him. He doesn't bother other people. He means too much to us for us to give him up just because the CHUL affirms a regulation we consider unjust. Our feelings on the subject are hardly unique. One guy is talking about a law suit over his cat unless Harvard can prove that he's not doing justice to the animal...
...done with great bite and panache. The trouble is Olympia's pet cat at the end of the bed, black in the original, white in the reversal. Its transformation thrusts Black Olympia out of the world of politics and back to aesthetics by suggesting that the color of people matters no more than the color of cats -which, in some Utopia, may eventually come true: but not here and now. Admits Rivers: "The only way to test the idea would be to change every Rembrandt that hangs in every Dutch museum, in fact every painting that exists, into black...