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...Undergraduate Council (UC) passed two party fund acts yesterday—including an increased fund for first-years??in a session marking the end of the term for outgoing UC leaders John S. Haddock ’07 and Annie R. Riley ’07. Haddock—sporting a brace-clad leg and a set of crutches in the wake of an injury sustained during a soccer game—was seated as the first bit of legislation regarding party fund arrangements passed without any debate. “This looks pretty standard...
Final Clubs: 1. Eight endowed all-male clubs, housed in their own multi-million dollar mansions. 2. The center of some students’ social lives (mostly female first-years??), they are viewed disapprovingly by College administrators and women’s groups alike. 3. Bastions of socioeconomic elitism. 4. Generally overrated...
...dean- and SAB-recommended peers. Deans only know a handful of students very well, so even recommendations from resident deans, much less recommendations from students on SAB, should not be accepted in lieu of an interview. The College plans to entrust the PAFs with social and academic advising of first-years??as well as a $1,000 stipend. Even pressing time constraints do not justify automatic acceptances when a $250,000-plus program hangs in the balance. Three weeks after this process was first questioned, Rinere explained that four to six people reviewed each application, and that...
Under the present system, Houses are expected to begin integrating new members in the middle of spring midterms, after seven months of community-starved first-years?? attaching themselves to their entryways and extracurricular activities in a frantic search for a niche at often-impersonal, always-intimidating Harvard. It is simply unreasonable to expect freshmen, who in many cases feel satisfied with their Harvard experiences come March, to buy into the community of a randomly assigned House. This problem is exacerbated by the presence of blocking groups; since freshmen usually block with friends from one of their improvised first...
Attention, first-years??-There is yet another reason to stay as far away as possible from Math 55: “Honors Advanced Calculus and Linear Algebra.” It didn’t help Hugh M. Wolff ’75. The internationally renowned symphony conductor remembers his freshman-year initiation into the daunting world of Harvard math and science with some chagrin. “I took Physics 55 or something for physics majors and Math 50-something for math majors,” he laughs, saying he quickly realized he wasn?...