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A student looks on to the Housing Day commotion in Annenberg Dining Hall yesterday.

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Neurobiologist Tamily Weissman, center, receives the 2010 Spark Award, which is given to an aspiring woman scientist, yesterday.

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Some undergraduates forego life in the one of the 12 upperclassman houses on campus to live in the Dudley Co-op, pictured above, at 3 Sacramento Street.

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Some undergraduates forego life in the one of the 12 upperclassman houses on campus to live in the Dudley Co-op, pictured above, at 3 Sacramento Street.

Today in Photos (03/12/10)

Housing Day 2010

Harvard Housing Day 2010

Single Ladies

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Despite prohibitions and threats, many freshman still drank alcoholic beverages as part of their River Run rituals last night.

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Overall, despite a renegade blocking group or few, the police presence along the river last night seemed to dispel effectively any thoughts of drunken boat-burning amongst River Running freshmen.

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Despite the heavy police presence and threats of disciplinary action, some blocking groups still attempted to burn paper boats as a part of River Run last night.

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Freshmen build camaraderie through River Run rituals, such as those that this group was performing in Quincy House courtyard last night.

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Lowell House Masters Diana Eck and Dorothy Austin welcomed freshmen into their dining hall last night, where preparations were being made for the Housing Day festivities.

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The Lowell House courtyards were the sites of various rituals last night as freshman carried out River Run. Gone, however, are the days when upperclassmen would attend, distributing alcoholic beverages.

Inhalable Cuisine

Curious passerbys stopped by Tory Row in Harvard Square, for the launch event of “Le Whif,” an inhalable chocolate.