Word: housesã
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...said universities were “masters’ houses?? within which ethnic studies occupied the maid’s quarters 30 years ago. Now, she said, ethnic studies is a “misunderstood and unwelcome guest” in the guest bedroom, a position gained only by dint of student unrest...
Opponents of universal keycard access also argue that its implementation will lower Houses?? sense of community and contribute to increased theft. In the light of a potential serious assault, their fears seem trivial. Houses are effective in establishing House community through House-sponsored social events and already accommodate outsiders who often convene for various extracurricular activities. Moreover, limited universal keycard access during the day, first granted over a year ago, has not been correlated with any increase in crime in Houses between those hours. These other arguments, however, are mere sideshows to the safety issue...
Twelve major university publishing houses??including Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)—signed agreements last month to publish many of their works online with Ebrary.com, a start-up company competing to deliver academic content free-of-charge to Internet users...
Before the current action, the most infamous sit-in was in 1969, and by the time it was over there was blood on the steps of University Hall; the diversity that Harvard now cherishes would make the many of the Houses?? namesakes shake in their graves, whether Increase Mather, Class of 1656, who left this conservative Puritan school for a more conservative Puritan community in New Haven, or A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, who hoped to maintain the Brahmin finishing school by creating maximum quotas for undesirables like Jews. University President-to-be Lawrence H. Summers...
...living space.” Come by my room, Larry—it’s Eliot K-31. I’ll show you the partition that my roommates and I had to build to give us even a simulacrum of privacy. Students all over the River Houses??and even a few Quaddies, I hear—have to build these things to avoid driving our roommates insane. And then I walk through the vast open spaces of the Radcliffe Institute, and I can’t help but think what a wonderful location it would...