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Yesterday, the Eliot HoCo put up posters around the Yard saying, “Who’s the Boss?” And during dinner, they unfurled a huge banner with the same message in Annenberg, the first-year dining hall...
...offer my own analysis for the Task Force: The Harvard undergraduate community is, by and large, rather unwelcoming. First-year meals in Annenberg Hall are marked by cliques and social networking. Vertical entryways, as opposed to hallways, discourage even casual interactions among acquaintances. Even volunteer student organizations, steeped in traditions older than any of us, do their best to appear imposing and exclusive. Although some notable exceptions exist, Harvard’s social and extracurricular life is less than conducive to establishing a genuine support community. Indeed, social contacts at Harvard tend to be superficial and self-serving...
...with similar interests can connect with each other. Rather, each stays within her or his own department, studying with the few faculty members there who deal with European economics, political science or history, largely unaware of the opportunities offered by CES, which sits just across the street from Annenberg Hall...
From their earliest days at Harvard, students are routinely reminded of one another’s financial circumstances. There is always a contingent of first-years who regularly desert Annenberg in favor of more expensive dining offerings—the same fortunate few who every spring pick the priciest vacation destinations. For those students who cannot afford Harvard’s loftier of lifestyles, who suffer through dining hall fare day after day—for whom spring break means a bus ride home, instead of a flight to Bermuda—by the time senior year arrives, they learn...
...thing, any old freshman can rush a frat. Rather than slipping personally addressed cards under doors like the final clubs do, the fraternities flyer outside Annenberg...