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...causes us to lose perspective on superficial issues—no, you can’t have pizza for three meals a day after you graduate—and more serious ones—we are all going to age someday. Therefore, college students should work to counter campus age homogeneity by actively seeking friends and acquaintances of different ages...
...common across age groups; a study by University of Berkeley sociologist Claude Fischer found that 72 percent of the close friends of Detroit men were within eight years of their age. However, the possibility of a non-age diverse friend circle is magnified at colleges because in most campus situations everyone living close to you is your age. “Residential proximity, age homogeneity, similarity and complementarity,” are the descriptors of adult friendships according to the “Encyclopedia of Adult Development,” and in a college situation the first two often coincide...
...mail sent campus-wide informed undergraduates of the one-week deadline to complete their own Census forms. The University is allowing students to return these forms to their respective houses’ offices or, for freshmen, to the basement of Weld Hall...
According to Laura M. Waldon, the LGBT and Census on Campus Outreach Partnership Specialist for the Census Bureau’s Boston Regional Office, college students are among the populations that are most difficult to reach, along with non-English speaking people and those in trouble with the government...
Areas such as school campuses are categorized by the Census Bureau as “group quarters.” In such situations, the way in which students are counted is left up to the administrations of various institutions. Options include distributing the forms individually to all its students’ mailboxes—Harvard’s chosen method—or allowing Census numerators to set up count stations on campus...