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Dionise Guerra-Carrillo

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‘Reclaiming What’s Ours’: Adams House Residents Storm and Annex Apley Court Ahead of Housing Day

Prior to the event, posters were taped to the walls and front doors of Apley, with one reading “Gold Coast Members Only.” One day before the storming and annexation, Adams residents received a message from Mischief and Traditions co-chair Christopher B. Ruiz ’26 announcing the “storming and annexing” of Apley Court to “restore the Gold Coast to its former glory.”


‘My Heart’s Broken’: Freshmen Fear Renovations, the Quad As Housing Day Approaches

Ahead of Housing Day on March 13, when first-year students are randomly assigned to one of the College’s 12 undergraduate houses, some students hope they do not get Eliot — which will be renovated over the next two years. Others expressed perennial worries about walks to Mather and the Quad.


‘It’s Honestly Not That Serious’: Peer Advisors Help Freshmen Navigate Blocking Decisions

Freshmen annually learn of their housing assignments when upperclassmen boisterously storm into their dorms on Housing Day — a tradition that dates back to 1995. But tension builds in the weeks leading up to the reveal when freshmen must select up to eight other students to “block” with, forming blocking groups that are guaranteed to be assigned the same House.


EU Envoy to Washington Says She Expects ‘Good Relations’ With Marco Rubio

Jovita Neliupšienė, the European Union’s ambassador to the U.S., said she believes Brussels will have “good relations” with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to serve as his Secretary of State.