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This system would align first-year dorms to specific Houses and therefore grant first-years a House affiliation on day one. While no such change is presently being considered by the Housing Office, while students may be reluctant to change—the Crimson Staff, for example, came out against it—and while I hate conceding anything to my mom, the Yale plan is a markedly better option for students at Harvard...
After only 25 first-years attended the Freshman Day of Service—down from 300 last year—and PBHA complained that 250 fewer first-years were volunteering than expected, the group still reports a 30 percent drop in first-year participation, according to President Laura E. Clancy...
...quite sure where to place the blame for the low first-year participation, though many students cite a letter that Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 sent first-years this summer advising them to “slow down” so as not to burn out upon reaching the Yard...
Lewis hypothesizes that as a result of the current economic slowdown, first-year students feel pressure to take care of themselves before engaging in altruistic community service or other extracurricular pursuits...
...After we saw that enough first-years weren’t signing up, we held more introductory meetings, put up posters and sent out e-mails to various lists,” says Roberta A. Camacho ’05, co-comp director at WHRB. “Now we have a similar number of first-year participants as last year...