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McLoughlin also said that the mailing was an ineffective use of resources—the first-year summer mailing costs publications $200 each, and costs the College $8,000. He said the information could be better distributed online or at the Freshman Activities Fair in September, and the money could be better spent by distributing grants to student organizations...
Diversity and Distinction Editor-In-Chief Dina B. Mishra ’06 said that in addition to hurting recruitment, the termination of the summer mailing would also hurt fundraising. Several publications, including Diversity and Distinction, solicit additional revenue by offering advertisers access to all first-year students before they arrive in Cambridge, she said...
...Dunster’s hygiene goes, I am throwing down the gauntlet. I personally challenge Lurie to a hygiene contest. I am quite confident in my chances of winning this, since I clearly beat Lurie in another endeavor: the first-year housing lottery...
...curricular review’s Working Group on Pedagogy, which studied writing at Harvard, also discussed ideas for integrating public speaking instruction into the required first-year course...
Professor of Physics John E. Huth, who is chair of the physics department and a member of the Core program’s Subcommittee on Expository Writing, says that public speaking could be better taught across the curriculum and not just in one first-year course...