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Students are expected to use their personal identification numbers in order to cast their ballots. But first-years??€™ lack of familiarity with the use of PINs, along with upperclass students losing or forgetting their PINs, could pose an obstacle to voting...
Roommates can make their peers better students and more social people, and they can open students up to new worlds of culture and tolerance. A study done by Bruce Sacerdote at Dartmouth College in 2001 shows that first-years??€™ GPAs are influenced by their roommates. At Dartmouth, where roommates are assigned almost entirely randomly, if a student had a relatively higher level of academic achievement in high school or plans to graduate with honors, he significantly improves the GPA of his roommates...
...Quilt arrived at Harvard through the initiative of Sarah Ann Murphy ’05 and Avra Van Der Zee ’02. Murphy works for the UHS-sponsored AIDS Education and Outreach program, which educates the Harvard community—especially first-years??€”about HIV/AIDS and STDs...
Maya P. Alperowicz, a first-year student who serves as a representative on the Law School Council, says that the big cuts in the section size did address many of previous first-years??€™ concerns...
Additionally, two liaisons —not necessarily first-years??€”will be appointed by the council president to advise the committee...