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Even with its tiny budget, the Prefect Program provides a variety of benefits to first-years. In their social coordinator mode, prefects help to unite entryways through weekly study breaks, brunches and other group activities. The program also picks up where the First Year Social Committee leaves off, organizing events such as last year’s Harvard Idol for the entire first-year class. But when students and prefects have tried to finagle extra funding—by pursuing small Undergraduate Council grants—for special first-year events, they have run into multiple bureaucratic barriers. Last year?...
Still, the most successful aspect of the prefect program is the passing down of informal advice from battle-tested upperclassmen. Upperclassmen are able to provide course suggestions and social tips to first-years in ways that most proctors can’t. While many of the Yard’s proctors currently provide meaningful advising to their entryways, we feel that prefects, on the whole, are more effective than proctors at dispensing counsel to greenhorn first-years. Our eventual hope is to see prefects, instead of proctors, living in first-year dorms in a part-time advising capacity, much like...
Chaste, polite, well-mannered, clad in a tasteful black gown and pearl necklace,19-year-old Kate Dierker is your ideal Southern belle. A first-year at George Washington University (GW) hailing from the wilds of St. Louis, Mo., Diercker and her sorority sisters were excitedly drinking and chatting at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., last Tuesday night (yeah—that Tuesday night), guests at the Republican National Committee-sponsored Bush “victory party...
...Crimson’s recent article (News, “Tickets to Dylan Concert Sell Out,” Nov. 1) may have treated my amendment to increase funding to the First-Year Social Committee (FYSC) as a joke, but it is no laughing matter. The freshman class composes fully a quarter of the student body and provides a quarter of the Undergraduate Council’s budget, but the council voted to make them eligible to receive less than 5% of the funding that the council made house committees eligible for. For fairness’s sake?...
...their creators and perhaps a few colleagues. Today's titles, however, are far too complicated, requiring a new kind of watchful eye. "Testers are a lot like the crash-test dummies of the industry," says Jason Della Roca, director of the International Game Developers Association, a professional society. First-year testers make about $32,000, while bug hunters with six or more years in the field earn about $53,000, according to Game Developer magazine...