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Harvard, of course, is not purely a black hole of misery. Stephanie L. Wilka ’05, a psychology concentrator in Lowell House, oozes school spirit??so much that she joined the College cheerleading squad her freshman year. “I think situations are what you make of ‘em,” she wrote in an e-mail message. “Ya gotta know when to work, and ya gotta know when to enjoy yourself...
...We’ve got spirit, yes we do! We’ve got spirit??how ’bout you?” they shout in chorus, pointing at a neighboring table on the snap of the last syllable. The commotion has turned nearly every head in the room, and now without an instant’s hesitation the neighboring students repeat the chant, their fingers pointing in a new direction...
...first—and the most vacuous—complaint likely to be raised against such a proposal, or any like it, is that “House spirit?? would be depleted by having people switch every year, thus taking some of the punch out of activities like intramural sports and generally lowering the morale in the Houses...
...maintain the routine and the familiar. Everyone—our soldiers included—do not want the world to stop even if they are in action. The old proverb “baseball, mom and apple pie” still applies. Sports are integral to the American spirit??we root for the underdog just as we crave the “rags to riches” life. We love the camaraderie of being a part of something larger than ourselves, of cheering with thousands of others, of feeling the competitive spirit...
Lowell House attempted to share their coveted bells in spirit??if not in kind—with their original owner in a noontime ceremony yesterday...