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Vaillancourt also gained valuable experience in the spotlight while showing no sign of the jitters expected from a first-year player...
Even with the difficulties stemming from the first-year transition, Taylor hasn’t had too many bad games himself. While his points may be down, his play has been anything but substandard. Though it hasn’t necessarily shown on the scoreboard, the freshman forward has been instrumental in generating offense by virtue of his aggressive forecheck and solid defense...
Ridolfi didn’t face most of the challenges of the typical first-year head coach. In addition to already having a firm grasp on the workings of Harvard, he didn’t have to worry about the pressures of moving to a new city. Having run the women’s volleyball program at Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., the past two years—a position he still holds—Ridolfi didn’t have to travel...
Yale-style housing is not the simple solution to freshman advising and freshman social life. It is unproductive to paint the housing system as such. Rather, the Curricular Review Committee and the administration should instead seek to fix advising and first-year student life without switching to Yale-style housing. There is no reason why the necessary improvements cannot take place within the current Harvard system...
...size-fits-all” solution it is intended to be. Instead of holding up Harvard’s current House system as the culprit, the Curricular Review Committee and the administration should instead focus on fixing the actual problems and improving both the first-year advising system and first-year social life within the boundaries of the current system...