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Welcome Back Event
Students gather at Tercentary Theatre for food, games, and other activities at the annual Welcome Back Event.
Harvard To Increase Wintersession Programs
As Harvard College prepares for its second-ever Wintersession, offices from across the University have increased programming in the works, and the Undergraduate Council plans to streamline its funding processes for student groups.
Partygoers Flee Cambridge Police Presence
Many students fled from parties this weekend, after Cambridge police officers showed up at final club parties and asked club officials to keep the noise down.
Eager Freshmen Get Early Start to Election
Mitt Romney announced on June 2, 2011. President Obama declared a couple months earlier on April 4. The first candidate for this month's Undergraduate Council elections made public his intentions nearly a month before even arriving on campus, on August 4, 2012.
Administration Makes Changes To Cope with Cheating Scandal
College administrators are bringing in extra help and shifting their priorities as they seek to balance new responsibilities stemming from Harvard’s sweeping cheating investigation with their normal job duties in University Hall.
3 PM: Dorm Crew
“When I was a freshman doing Fall Clean-Up, one of the captains told me about someone who had a pet rabbit or something, and then just kept all of its waste in a drawer."
Lunch Break: Thomas A. Dingman '67
“Freshmen: always making a mess,” Thomas A. Dingman '67 says, which is acknowledged by a knowing nod.
9 AM: How Do You Say "Lesson One" in Polish?
The real professor walks in on the hard sound of the “k.” The English postdoc calls out, “How do you say ‘breast milk’ in Polish?”
10 PM: Internal Bronologue
Let’s just get us a brewski, down that shit in one, get another, down that shit in one, and then down the third with some super chill Mario Kart.
9:45 PM: Observations From Their First Night Out
They vanished back into the night, in search of a “real Harvard party,” or at least an alley in which to shotgun a beer or something.
7 AM: Daybreak on the Charles
September 7, 7:00 a.m. The sun had just risen from its nighttime slumber, and while most college students were hours away from consciousness, I was traipsing down the banks of the Charles.
