Therese M. Flynn '92 and three friends were locked in her room for 45 minutes Friday. After calling her roommate and trying to unlock the door from the inside and outside she called the Harvard Police. "At first they didn't believe me. I guess they thought it was a prank," she said.
By the time a locksmith came and sawed off the lock on the door, a crowd had gathered outside her door, Flynn said. "They all started cheering, with cameras and everything. It was like the baby in the well." Flynn said that the lock on her door was replaced within a few hours.
Kovacs said that he did not think that Friday night's situation was unsafe because there was a fire door. However, he said that he thought that being locked in a bathroom would be unsafe in a fire. "Perhaps [all the Wigglesworth locks] should be checked," he said.
Food Salvage Program Gets Early Start
Although a Phillips Brooks House program designed to provide homeless people with hot meals from Harvard dinining halls does not begin until November, one program organizer is making sure hungry people are fed until then.
Paul N. Gailiunas '92, a PBH member who also works in the dining halls, said he is starting the Food Salvage program early because he is upset about the amount of food which goes to waste each evening.
"It seems to me that at least four or five big trays of food are left over each night in one dining hall. It's thrown right down the drain. It's ridiculous," he said, adding that starting this Friday, he and several friends will pick up food from the dining halls two or three times a week and take it to a Cambridge homeless shelter.
The official program will begin November 15, when the University Lutheran Shelter, which provides 25 to 30 homeless people with hot meals each day, opens.
Deaf Poet Performs In Sever Hall
Poetry, seen and not heard, filled Sever Hall last night at a Deaf Poetry presentation that combined mime, signing and sound effects.
Deaf poet Peter Cook and interpreter Kenny Lerner garnered repeated applause--waving hands in American Sign Language (ASL)--from the approximately 60 people in the audience. The reading was presented by the Boston Theater of the Deaf (BDT), Harvard coordinators for persons with disabilities and the Phillips Brooks House Committee for the Deaf.
Cook used ASL and mime in the reading while Lerner interpreted it verbally and added sound effects.
"We write everything together," said Cook through Lerner, "but [my performance] is not word for word. There's a lot of addition. Also, we judge the audience--if they're really conservative, we might not do all of our stuff."
Cook's and Lerner's performance included poems ranging in subject from the streets of San Francisco to the martial arts and is part of a tour sponsored by the Boston Arts Lottery.