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COLLEGE OFFICIALS, in discussing the tutor selection process, often underestimate the importance of student involvement because of a too-narrow focus on tutors' intellectual qualities. Assistant Dean for the House System Thomas A. Dingman '67 says that because "tutors are teachers," the College looks for academic excellence before social skills, or, as Bossert says, Lowell House looks primarly for "great intellectuals. We don't select tutors primarily to entertain the students of participate in intramural sports--though that is an important way in meet students--the emphasis here is not on the rah-rah college thing...
...There is a big concern among some colleges to insure that the living facilities are more than dooms--that they are not places for students to retreat from academic life, but that they serve as bridges to the [academic] departments," said Associate Dean of Housing Thomas A. Dingman '67, who recently attended a series of meetings at the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford to discuss aspects of residential life with officials of other colleges...
...There's a feeling among many people that what got Harvard through the 1960's was the house system. It bridged the gulf between the faculty and students. How other schools are trying to create the same opportunity for that mix by building communities within the larger university community," Dingman says...
...initiative to create something like our system is underway in other universities, but Harvard also wants to shore up its Houses--they're vital to the life of the College," Dingman says...
...large number of transfer students who will receive on-campus housing this year is a significant change from last year, when transfer students were told by the administration that they would be ineligible for any kind of on-campus housing because of overcrowding, Dingman added...