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...deranged yuppie wife conjures up a phantom lover who is a Neanderthal. More substantially, it is at the core of the two best new British plays on view in London within the past year, one discussed for a New York City staging, the other already installed. The possible transfer, Simon Gray's Melon, cues playgoers in from the start that they are entering tragic terrain: its tale of a happy man's abrupt tumble into lunacy is recounted first person in the chill of retrospect, after an equally arbitrary, untrustworthy recovery. The other play, Alan Ayckbourn's more complex Woman...
...house remains a troubled one. Many of its affiliates--mostly transfer students--would rather live in the residential houses if the College had the space. But, with already crowded housing, all new transfer students are forced to join Dudley...
...after one semester at Harvard, about half of the transfer students decide to become off-campus affiliates of a residential house and have their paperwork transferred there. Forcing all transfer students to affiliate with Dudley when they first come to Harvard makes for confusion when they have to switch advisers and familiarize themselves to a whole new house. Worse still, it keeps transfer students from integrating into house social life--the mainstream of the campus...
...campus students by choice. These students have different needs than most Harvard undergraduates, such as a lounge for the day and lockers. Dudley House and its new masters will be able to serve these students better if they did not have to deal with a group of unhappy transfer students who will want to leave after a semester anyway...
WHEN I arrived at Harvard as a transfer student, I though I'd have no problem meeting other students. But since I've been on campus, institutional barriers have done their best to curb my social life. Part of the problem stems from Harvard's abysmal party scene and part stems from missing freshman year--the year-long mixer in the Yard. Transfer students are more likely to run into a brick wall than open-door party in search of a social life...