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...friend. Often ridiculed for their stereotypical mass movements from one party to the next, and separated from upperclass housing by the gates of the Yard, freshmen are generally on the fringe of the Harvard social scene. For most, large parties are scarce and, without ties to upperclassmen, weekend nights tend to be quiet or spent on the prowl for a decent activity. The Harvard social scene has been the subject of heated criticism in recent years, in particular the lack of social options for freshmen.But now, student groups and the College administration—including the First-Year Social Committee...
...seems that blocking groups have now assumed the role of the natural unit of community at Harvard. They’re stuffed in one location and asked to get along. But they often don’t, and often blocking groups themselves fall apart. They are too small and tend to be too poorly-chosen to last...
Many schools, including Harvard, currently use a social-norms approach, which attempts to reduce binge drinking by changing students’ perceptions of their peers’ drinking habits. This approach is based on the idea that students tend to think their peers drink more, and more often, than they actually...
Gatherings of world trade officials tend to be messy affairs. They are huge. Months before they take place, they are invariably described as "make-or-break," or with some other breathless phrase, and are accompanied by much public posturing. If they don't collapse in mutual recrimination?as did recent World Trade Organization (WTO) meetings in Seattle and Canc?n?most of the action takes place in a mad flurry during the last few hours, when previously unshakable national positions suddenly melt away in compromise. Then comes the spin. "Trade negotiators are famous for saying that the agreement they've just...
...Gwang Ki kneels in the yellow stubble of his newly harvested rice field and lovingly picks up a stray stalk of rice. Every day since he was a young boy, Yuk, now 53, has come to this paddy in Jangsu province, South Korea, to plant, to tend the fragile seedlings and to bring in the crops. Yuk's family has tilled this tiny plot for 400 years, and while it's increasingly difficult to earn a living from the land, Yuk would be happy knowing his family could go on with the work for 400 more. "The purpose of farming...