Seidman must have been displeased with the candy Bok put in her goodie bag because the campus divestment activist responded with a trick of her own. She became, in Bok's words, "an insurgent candidate" in the 1986 Board of Overseers election, running on a pro-divestment platform.
And perhaps by using some of the arts of the occult, she actually won a seat, beating out the University's official candidates. All because of a few Reece's peanut butter cups.
Peer Counseling Made Easier
In order to make sure that undergraduates are clear about the purpose of their counseling organization, the students running Eating Problems Outreach have changed the group's name to reflect its goals a little more clearly.
The peer counseling group, which deals primarily with eating-and weight-related issues, has changed its name from Eating Problems Outreach (EPO) to Eating Concerns Hotline and Outreach (ECHO) to indicate that its counseling is open to general problems, not just weight-related ones, said ECHO counselor Samantha J. Smoot '87.
"Our past name was a little threatening and intimidating," said Co-Chairman Louisa A. Smith '88. "It emphasized severe eating problems too much. We exist for a wide range of issues."
Deans in Spaaace
It must have given a moment's joy to any student whose style is being cramped by an overbearing, unsensitive roommate. Or to any free spirit whose karma was being suppressed by tight living conditions. The University has just created a new assistant dean for planning...and space.
Just kidding. The new dean doesn't really have a mandate to let your psyche run free in the soft wind of the subconscious. His or her job will be to alleviate the logjam in the University's libraries. In many of Harvard's libraries, the space situation is so bad that there isn't enough shelf space to hold all the books in the system.