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Re: The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Lesley Argues With City Over Church

disgruntled_alum — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:14:48 -0000

"one of only seven pre-Civil War structures still standing in the city"

Um, what? There's more than seven antebellum buildings in Harvard Yard. Here's the first eight that come to mind:

Massachusetts Hall 1720
Hollis Hall 1763
Stoughton Hall 1805
Harvard Hall 1766
Holden Chapel 1744
Wadsworth House 1726
Holworthy Hall 1812
University Hall 1815

Re: The Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: Change We Are Not Asked For

disgruntled_alum — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:43:59 -0000

I demand more public transportation every few weeks, but the T doesn't acknowledge my emails.

Is my fear of nuclear power still irrational when I think about the dozens of people I know from Ukraine and Belarus who are now developing rare forms of cancer?

Re: The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Pfoho To Begin Food Composting

disgruntled_alum — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:36:42 -0000

Of course it would be even better if all the food got eaten in the first place, rather than thrown out.

Re: The Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: LETTERS: No Cause for "Cell-ebration"

disgruntled_alum — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:48:18 -0000

Stephen, you can put words in quotation marks all you want, but your supposedly exaggerated claims by researchers are meaningless unless you cite your sources.

Re: The Harvard Crimson :: News :: UC To Examine Social Spaces

disgruntled_alum — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:23:07 -0000

Exactly what practices of Quad Sound Studios did Josh Nuni call into question? It would be nice if the Crimson weren't less vague than the UC discussions it reports.

Re: The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Allston Looks for ‘Creative Solutions’

disgruntled_alum — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:16:14 -0000

Bicycle advocates say that sidepaths are a terrible idea, and as someone who bikes daily in the Boston area, I agree 100 percent. They are far more dangerous than biking in the street, since drivers don't expect bikes moving at high speeds on the wrong side of parked cars when they make a turn into a side street ot driveway.

Sidepaths also end up being used as dumping grounds for piles of snow, and stay that way for weeks. One such example, right in the middle of Harvard Square, is the new bike jughandle at Johnston Gate, which replaced the Harvard Shuttle half of the bus stop. It was buried in snow continuously from December through mid-February.

The easiest way to make biking in Allston easier would be to repave the streets. North Harvard Street is a moonscape of potholes.

Small-scale housing and parks are a good idea, but the notion that Brighton Mills separates Allston from Brighton makes absolutely no sense. There's no visibile line between Allston and Brighton -- they're basically one continuum of residential streets.

Re: The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Proctors’ Meal Plans May Be Restricted

disgruntled_alum — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:32:56 -0000

HUDS charges the FDO a lot of money for these meals, but if proctors ate in dining halls less often, would it actually reduce HUDS's costs? The cost of food is a small percentage of HUDS's budget.

If Harvard is cutting costs 15% for student-related services, in would be nice if they cut tuition by the same amount.

Re: http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=126609

disgruntled_alum — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:49:37 -0000

I'm not sure the block of Winthrop Street just east of JFK Street is owned by Harvard. Harvard does its own parking enforcement, and its parking signs say "Harvard University Police Department" on the bottom.

Re: The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Ph.D.s To Fill Teaching Posts

disgruntled_alum — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:59:03 -0000

Annoyed_Grad Student, the new one-year Ph.D. teaching positions are going to replace Ph.D.-holding lecturers and visiting professors, not grad student TFs.

And the whole point of a one-year position is to make sure these people don't get any pay raises. So if someone is a good teacher, it would make no difference -- one year and they're out.

Re: The Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: A Bicycle Built for You

disgruntled_alum — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:49:30 -0000

I see one big problem with bike sharing programs: How do you know a bike will be available when you need one?

If Boston wants to be more bike-friendly, they should start by installing bike racks in the Back Bay. They recently removed all the parking meters and replaced them with multi-space machines, which left people with no place to lock bikes.

They said they couldn't install racks because it's a historic district, which is totally ridiculous. There's plenty of car-oriented infrastructure in Back Bay, and the neighborhood was built when biking swept the nation as the latest trend.

Re: The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Ph.D.s To Fill Teaching Posts

disgruntled_alum — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:42:18 -0000

One-year teaching appointments for recent PhD's? Are they *trying* to make sure classes are taught by people with as little teaching experience as possible?

Re: The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Interactive Graphic: Harvard Properties in Allston

disgruntled_alum — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:15:10 -0000

The finale pastry kitchen is an industrial building in an industrial neighborhood. The neighbors shouldn't complain that it isn't leased to a retail tenant.

Re: The Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: Serving My Country—and Me

disgruntled_alum — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:09:58 -0000

You can't have an "if" clause and a "therefore" clause in the same sentence. "Therefore" should only come at the start of a sentence, or after a semicolon.

-grammar policeman

Re: The Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: Death of a Harvard Man

disgruntled_alum — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:33:47 -0000

Why should there be just one ideal Harvard man? Harvard is a place that prides itself on diversity. So there's plenty of room for science nerds, jocks, future lawyers, artists, and whoever else wants to make a presence on campus.

Re: The Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: Ten Dollars, No Sense

disgruntled_alum — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:03:56 -0000

The fee certainly is annoying. But isn't it only collected via termbill?

So a student wouldn't skip a trip to the movies. Instead, their $32,000 bill would get bumped up to $32,010.

Re: The Harvard Crimson :: News :: BGLTSA Votes To Change Name to QSA

disgruntled_alum — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:00:06 -0000

Someone should start a Nerdy Students Association.

Oh wait, there is one -- it's called the CS Department.

Re: The Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: Hypocrisy on Tap

disgruntled_alum — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:52:29 -0000

It doesn't matter if it's consensual, or gay or straight, or if there was or wasn't lying involved. At present, in this country, you can't have a sexual relationship with someone who works for you, especially a political intern.