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Visiting students, especially the visiting freshmen from Tulane—who have no college experiences outside Harvard, have made their friendships here, and know few people at Tulane—have been indistinguishable from other students; they are rowers, cheerleaders, and members of our classes and extracurricular clubs. In short, they are valuable members of the Harvard community, despite their nominal visiting-student status. Forcing them to leave after their first semester of freshman year—effectively kicking them off campus—will irreparably damage their college experiences and disrupt the community here. And letting visiting students stay...
...We’ve wanted to ensure that we’re creating the best first year for our students that we can,” Dingman says. “So, we’re paying attention to all aspects of it: academic, social, and extracurricular.”Though the FDO should play a key role in enhancing first-year social life, Dingman says, student involvement through the FSYC will also be central to the effort.“That’s really where the best planning comes from,” Dingman says...
...public sphere because of their passive natures. They are the ones who need this idea of a natural community most and are also the least likely to get it—hence, perhaps, our substantial rate of depression. Maybe this is also why Harvard students turn to extracurricular activities with such a vengeance (it’s not just résumé building): they do it to find the community not available in the Houses, which have let them down...
...good mascot can bring to the school. I suggest that we, the students of Harvard College, follow the example of the boys of 1875 and hold a plebiscite to choose a mascot to replace John Harvard. At a school like ours, where individual ambition and competition for grades and extracurricular achievement are dominant forces, a mascot who symbolizes the unity of the College will be a tremendous asset. A powerful mascot will be a tangible object of affection for all students, as it will embody the grandeur of Harvard and call attention to the solidarity of the student body...
Even though I envy those with the feeling of having a “home away from home” I feel anything but resentment toward Harvard’s cultural organizations. In fact, these groups are the lifeblood of Harvard’s academic, extracurricular, and (especially) social life. But the truth is this: students who feel no cultural ties still search for a club that will embrace them not for what they do, but for who they...