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...Sometimes it is necessary to marshal less than scintillating aspects of Harvard life to hold retrospective weight. In “A Darker Shade of Crimson,” Navarrette wanders into the Yard earlier than his classmates, reporting for “a special work detail.” And in this special work detail, he writes, “a group of us would clean and ready the dormitory rooms of arriving undergraduates.” And like many other recorded events, Dorm Crew gets vested with symbolic and personal significance. “When asked...
...dressed up term “special work detail” makes you laugh, Dorm Crew’s shout-out in “An Expensive Education” is imbued with a similar significance. While the elite are out swilling Bloody Marys for Sunday brunch at Deadalus, international students are swishing Mur-Kil down their shower drains. “The introductory meeting looked like an abbreviated European Union of reluctant janitors. A Scottish piano virtuoso, two Irishmen, half a dozen girls from Eastern Europe who were either short and stout like potato balls or tall and thin...
...coming weeks, they expect to submit a proposal outlining their plans for cooperation to Hammonds. Among other joint online projects, the OIP and OCS are testing a new internet application with the Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Fellowship, a grant program for graduating seniors. They said they are now working out the bugs and may extend the application to more OCS/OIP programs next year. The OCS Fellowship Office is now being housed in the OIP’s two-story building at 77 Dunster St., which was formerly home to the Core Curriculum Office. The OIP temporarily had been located...
...well being, she sometimes struggles to balance her two roles of Harvard student and pet owner. “The thing is with Merf, she gets lonely, she doesn’t have a companion to play with her. I’m busy with class, with work, and I don’t have the necessary time, which is on average an hour a day to play with her. I feel as though it is necessary that she get an article for herself,” says the student, “especially at a place as prestigious...
...line or unusual—presidential communication of this sort almost certainly occurs often: behind closed doors and without hype. He determined correctly, alongside his political advisors, that Paterson is particularly embattled—with 71 percent of New Yorkers assessing the governor’s work as either “fair” or “poor.” Paterson might not even survive a challenge in the Democratic gubernatorial primary and could very easily lose to a Republican challenger in the statewide race, especially if that challenger were to be former New York City mayor...