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Yesterday, the Eliot HoCo put up posters around the Yard saying, “Who’s the Boss?” And during dinner, they unfurled a huge banner with the same message in Annenberg, the first-year dining hall...
...offer my own analysis for the Task Force: The Harvard undergraduate community is, by and large, rather unwelcoming. First-year meals in Annenberg Hall are marked by cliques and social networking. Vertical entryways, as opposed to hallways, discourage even casual interactions among acquaintances. Even volunteer student organizations, steeped in traditions older than any of us, do their best to appear imposing and exclusive. Although some notable exceptions exist, Harvard’s social and extracurricular life is less than conducive to establishing a genuine support community. Indeed, social contacts at Harvard tend to be superficial and self-serving...
...experiment involved 330 students from the University of Texas at San Antonio who were taking either a first-year or sophomore introductory psychology class...
Harvard aims to extend wireless Internet access to the common lounges of all first-year dormitories in time for the fall arrival of the Class of 2008, computer service officials said yesterday...
Still, students in first-year dormitories are likely to experience collateral access to wireless Internet installed in their basement and first-floor common rooms. Students in upperclass Houses already report accessing the wireless network from their individual rooms...