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...slightly altered form. Over the past few years the pieces shifted toward equally pressing issues for freshmen, like perfectionism. However, following 2007’s “Quad Incident,” in which a group of black students were questioned by the Harvard police, the Freshman Dean??s Office seems to have decided that the readings needed to be refocused radically. In the process, it produced a program that consciously rejected not only Epps’s legacy but the virtues of balance and free exchange in favor of an echo chamber resonating with shrieks...
...stigmatization if they talk about sex, but sex needs to be de-stigmatized in order to be safe. All college students—but particularly freshmen—need to know the facts about sexual health if they are to make well-informed lifestyle choices. Luckily for the Freshmen Dean??s Office (FDO), there is an easy way to bring factual, non-directive sexual health education into freshman dorms. The FDO—specifically, the Peer Advising Fellows should work with Harvard’s Peer Contraceptive Counselors (PCC) to plan sexual-health-education themed freshmen study breaks...
...Addressing a standing room only lecture hall, Kagan prefaced the meeting by saying that “whether we did the right thing or the wrong thing generally” in changing the grading system was not up for debate. But the dean??s initial comments did not prevent a small but vocal group of third-year students from expressing their opposition to the new grading policy...
...opinions of the 400 students would factor into her thoughts, Kagan said. Even as other students pointed out the uncertainty in the new system and the opacity of the decision-making process, Bateman said he was pleased with the dean??s responsiveness...
...certainly had its share of obstacles in negotiating with the Dean of the College recently, given the three-dean turnover in the last few years. Managing a relationship with the Dean??s office and maintaining a council through three different deans of Harvard College might have made it difficult to even keep funding constant. The recent boost in support of student-life events, however, shows a commitment to raising the financial bar even during turbulent times. This additional funding not only represents hard work on the student end, but it also serves as a ringing endorsement...