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...registered dieticians will be on hand to dish out nutritional advice to go along with first-years?? buffalo wings as Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) kicks off its month-long observance of National Nutrition Month in Annenberg tonight...
Women for Dignity and Self-Reliance is certainly not the first charitable organization to benefit from a revealing calendar. In recent years, organizations ranging from Cincinnati’s Civic Garden Center to the Maple Corner, Vt. community center have sold calendars featuring nude volunteers discreetly shielded by shrubbery or bales of hay. Trumbull first-years?? failure to follow suit by performing a full monty (or, as the gentlemen of Maple Corner render it, a full Vermonty) can only be seen as further evidence of Yale students’ sexual repression...
...that end, all undergraduates who work formally with first-years??like prefects—should not be forced to restrict themselves to providing “information,” as opposed to actual advice. The College and the departments must take this leash off of upper-class students. The rule is largely meaningless, but its mere existence might inhibit upper-class students from expressing their opinions candidly. Additionally, since first-years can conceivably compare the advice of several undergraduates with different interests, a compilation of honest advice will better help first-years than any guarded...
...other program directors, like Mai A. Huynh ’03, director of Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment, say they are concerned about first-years?? lack of interest in tutoring—a problem they say requires a long-term solution...
...First-years insist that their class is not unusual, arguing that they are merely “testing the waters,” as Rashan Jibowu ’06 put it in an e-mail response to a complaint about first-years?? participation over the BMF e-mail list yesterday...