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...well over a hundred advisers in the concentrations), making the right academic choices can seem confusing or overwhelming at times, and navigating the curriculum can be complicated. We do see areas for improvement in first-year advising. But freshmen surveys, focus groups, conversations with students, their parents and alumni over the last couple of years indicate that there is a growing satisfaction with academic advising. They all suggest that first-year advising is more successful than your editorial depicts...
...This, naturally, is all Harvard’s fault. And it’s got some alumni in a tizzy. In an open letter this week to University President Drew G. Faust, 13 (13!) members of the class of 1967 expressed their (moderate) disappointment at “the apparently docile political behavior of the undergraduate student body...
...miss the mark. It’s not that Harvard is letting in the wrong people, or that “undergraduate life at the College today is not giving due encouragement to civic courage and political engagement,” as our ornery alumni suggest. Though they’ve asked Faust to charter a task force with a name so long and grammatically complex that it cannot possibly be anything but a good idea, no amount of administrative prodding will wake us up to the fact that, as they claim, “the US is engaged...
McCarthy said there are “multiple ironies” in having alumni who grew up among the turbulent atmosphere of 60s protests calling for the University to create a task force to discuss the issue...
...earnestly appeal to you to create a Task Force to investigate this and to recommend possible remedies. We would hope that in addition to faculty and present day students you would invite onto such a Task Force representatives of the alumni representation from earlier, less laid back days...