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...happened to me too many times to count. The temperature is 30 degrees or it's raining--too cold or wet to ride my bike--and it's 11 p.m. I'm at Johnston Gate or at the Science Center waiting for the shuttle back to the Quad. I wait until the time the shuttle is supposed to come. No shuttle. I wait ten minutes more. No shuttle...
...dilemma: If I try to find a phone inside the Science Center or across the street from Johnston Gate to complain to the shuttle service, the shuttle might come and leave me behind. If I call Harvard's escort service, the controller will tell me to take the shuttle, or that there will be an hour's wait for the escort. So I walk home, cursing the shuttle powers-that-be, glancing behind me at two-minute intervals to make sure I'm not being followed by would-be rapists, and arriving at Currier House 15 minutes later cold, scared...
Take a look at the gaps. While there are shuttles at 3, 3:12 and 3:20 p.m. from the Science Center to the Quad, there is not another until 4 p.m. Similarly, there are shuttles from Johnston Gate to the Quad at 8:23, 8:33 and 8:45 p.m. and then not another until 9:26 p.m. And on weekends, the shuttles don't even begin running until 11:45 a.m.--long after many people must trek to the Square for appointments or religious services. These shuttle schedules are not made with students in mind...
...please is a form of self-expression essential to their personhood, then it's time for them to get a new personhood. Anyone so addicted to nicotine that he or she can't stand to do without for the length of time it takes them to walk out the Johnston Gate is in no position to talk about autonomy and individual integrity...
From Opening Exercises, the first-year classheads en masse to the Radcliffe Quad for agood old-fashioned picnic--Harvard Dining Servicesal fresco, basically. Students are supposedto sit with their dormmates, but during the longmarch to the Quad, they tend to get separatedsomewhere between Johnston gate and the SheratonCommander Hotel. These kinds of things have a wayof happening on the way to the Quad...