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Assigning a House affiliation to first-years would drastically improve House community, House pride and general social life on campus. First-year enthusiasm could help bolster lagging House communities and provide more bodies and funding for House parties, formals and other House events. In fact, the addition of more House-affiliated students might increase demand enough to warrant more activities...
...major criticism of the Yale system is that it decreases student choice. Granted, some first-years will find a group of friends they want to live with outside the approximately 130 that would be in their House; others will not get along with members of their first-year entryway and will want to switch away from them. Therefore, a change to the Yale system would need to be accompanied by a free, easy, liberal transfer system between Houses. First-years who wished to room with students from another dorm could simply apply to switch Houses with the understanding that...
Similarly, critics are concerned that attaching students to Houses early on would work to undermine first-year cohesiveness. But social life is not a zero-sum game. Giving students a feeling of belonging in a House community will not detract from the bonding that happens between members of a new class. The reason that first-years feel strong bonds is that they they live in and around the Yard—in the winter months they seem to be penned in—and they have the opportunity to eat in Annenberg. These experiences work to foster connections between students...
...effort to improve race relations in Houses and first-year dorms, at least 13 students will serve as liaisons between race relations tutors and the student body this semester...
According to Rechler, student liaisons will work with race relations tutors and first-year proctors to organize and publicize events—such as cultural outings and film screenings—that focus on diversity...