188:. One side of the face is a happy face, the other a not-so-happy one. One face represent the students who have struggled for the first portion of the academic year while the other face represents hope for the second portion of the year. House residents decorate campus and the city with pumpkins in the lead-up to the event, and mark the coming of the event by a two-minute howl at midnight on each of the seven days prior to the event. Silence marks the daylight hours of 31 October in a mark of the solemnity of the occasion and the judgement that will come in the sacrifice.
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event, of which several were permitted per term. There is now a limit of one such party per term. These limitations have been enforced to alter the image of UNB as a party-school. Also, the Liquor store on
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Harrison House maintains the longest running tradition at UNB, The Great
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The social aspect of life in residence, and particularly in
Harrison has changed substantially over the years with each subsequent time period referring to a past period as a utopia. Accurately, each change has imposed a different degree of controls on social activity.
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senior grad student) who lives in the residence. The Don is assisted by floor
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co-educational style configurations since their original construction from the late 1950s and early 1960s. Harrison changed from male residence to co-ed residence for autumn 1991.
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