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Under the new policy, the House will assign all "rising sophomores" rooms during August, once the total number of vacant rooms becomes clear after the deadline for leave-taking passes...
...16th century Latin Mass. Even Lefebvre, however, was not conservative enough for Fernández, who broke with the Ecône faction to join a French group called the Sedevacantistes. The group's name derives from its basic tenet: that the See of Peter has been vacant since the 1958 death of Pope Pius XII, whom they consider the last orthodox Pope. Fernández may face a high penalty for acting on his beliefs: he was formally arraigned in Lisbon on a charge of attempted murder. A conviction could bring him 15 to 20 years in prison...
Every word hauls some basic cargo or else can be shrugged aside as vacant sound. Indeed, almost any word can, in some use, take on that extra baggage of bias or sentiment that makes for the truly manipulative word. Even the pronoun it becomes one when employed to report, say, that somebody has what it takes. So does the preposition in when used to establish, perhaps, that zucchini quiche is in this year: used just so, in all but sweats with class bias. The emotion-heavy words that are easiest to spot are epithets and endearments: blockhead, scumbum, heel, sweetheart...
...remedial gesture, the University should settle upon some fair system to give preference in next year's in House lotteries to this year's displaced students. Harvard should also act to house its unfortunates as soon as possible--and should offer them the option of occupying vacant rooms in other Houses. In placing those students, the University should be unusually considerate, making sure the problem of subpar rooms is not coupled with that of disagreeable roommates...
...Others are upset because they deliberately opted for Quad houses to get singles, and found themselves living in either reconstituted common rooms or what officials politely call "ec-doubles"--single rooms into which two students have been squeezed. And we find it dismaying that many houses hold rooms vacant for months on end for "faculty guests," while undergraduates reside in cramped quarters...