Word: weeks
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...shows this week, but you're not getting tickets this late: Paul Simon (Dec. 1-3) and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones (Dec. 6-10). Harvard alum-band Seventeen turn up at Bill's Bar on Dec. 7. Lots of female performers in town too: Rickie Lee Jones on Dec. 6, Dido and the Bangles on Dec. 7 and Melissa Ferrick on Dec. 8. And in the Where-are-they-now? category, Richard Marx pops up, incongruously at the Paradise, on Dec. 3. Wherever you go... whatever you do... I will be right here waiting...
...Houses well past midnight. We are accosted by strange picket lines on the way to the Science Center. Not since the last issue of The Lampoon has there been a sight less funny than the signs protesting women's suffrage that were hoisted by overly intoxicated initiates this week. (Yeah, and it was offensive and misogynistic too.) Not since last year's chicken scandal (when Phoenix Club hopefuls were required to keep live chickens in their dorm rooms for a week) have we had such vivid reminders of why final clubs are the most intellectually challenged organizations on campus...
When the College wisely severed its ties to final clubs in 1984, it continued to implicitly accept their behavior by refusing to crack down on initiation week. The line on final clubs from former Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III was always the same: we don't like them, but we have no jurisdiction over them. Well, initiation week is the time of year when the boundary lines become blurry. The mock protests on campus property and the drunken initiates stumbling around in Houses late at night are both clear incursions of the initiation process onto Harvard proper...
...team up to make sure that initiation stayed within final clubs doors. By cracking down on students for being drunk and disorderly in public, creating public nuisances or just violating under-age drinking laws, Harvard and its police (perhaps with the help of the Cambridge police) could make initiation week a real hassle for over-zealous punch masters...
...percent power play, and they went 0-for-6 last week," Kolarik said. "Not that we want to take penalties, but we have confidence in who we put out on the unit...