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...Officers reported to Canaday Hall, entryway A, following a report that people were lighting fireworks behind the freshman dorm last Sunday, March 5. But they found no one upon arrival...
...early morning pianist drew complaints from resident of Winthrop House, entryway H, last Monday, sending officers to the scene to investigate. Officers arrived and found no evidence of piano-playing...
...support the creation of an academic peer advising system for Harvard College but fear the best elements of the prefect program will be lost with its demise (“College Pulls Plug On Prefects,” news, Mar. 7). Good prefects forged relationships among freshmen in their entryway, facilitated the connection between older proctors and young freshmen, and provided an invaluable link between the Yard and the Houses. In addition, the program managed a series of Yard-wide, late-night, alcohol-free activities designed to give freshmen something fun to do. In December 2003, the prefect program hosted...
...first and biggest step toward improving advising at the College requires assigning incoming freshmen to upperclass houses before they arrive at Harvard and giving each freshman entryway a House affiliation. When the 2004 Curricular Review report recommended such a change to Harvard’s housing policy, it presumed that the benefits to advising from pre-assignment would consist of improved freshman access to the House tutor system—a wrong-headed argument if ever there was one. Critics rightly argued that House advisors are stretched thin across this campus and that the added load would fill the tutor...
...freshmen advising and in the consistency of House life. Assigning big siblings and peer advisors based on House affiliation would also create an incentive for freshmen to “buy-in” to their residential communities from the outset. The knowledge that one’s entryway-mates will be one’s neighbors and (with any luck) friends for the rest of one’s time at Harvard would create a strong incentive for freshmen to participate in their residential communities, and to make an effort at bonding with their peer advisors...