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There is, however, still the lingering issue of the cost to the University of wiring cable through all the first-year dorm rooms and upperclass Houses. This is a good point. My god, the University barely springs for sufficient electrical outlets in most rooms on campus, let alone 150 glorious channels of digital cable. So in a world where an $18 billion endowment affords you 1920s-style access to electricity and lamps which are basically designed to break when touched, I guess it might actually seem crazy to wire buildings just for the sake of cable television even...
...thing’s for sure—Harvard’s conservative music scene had little to do with it. As a first-year looking for a creative outlet, Clayton was immediately disillusioned by WHRB’s top-down hierarchy and retreated to MIT’s comparatively freeform radio station, WMBR. “I was playing what I loved. It was the total opposite of WHRB, where you have to fit these pre-slotted categories and it’s under their full control,” he says...
Most schools have not yet taken advantage of these academic “peer effects” in first-year housing. For example, the deans at Harvard do not look at students’ high school achievements when creating rooming groups...
While this study focuses on social clubs at Dartmouth, it seems obvious that the effect would also be true of other extracurricular activities at similar undergraduate institutions like Harvard. As a first-year, I was drawn to some IOP forums because my roommate was interested in politics and wanted to go. I often tagged along with another roommate to the MAC on days that I would not have gone on my own. For many first-years, the activities in which they participate, the parties to which they go and the people whom they meet are influenced by their roommates...
...selection of first-year rooming groups is one of the few pedagogical tools that the University wields outside of the classroom. Schools like the University of Tennessee and Ball State University should not give up this tool by allowing their students to self-segregate even before they arrive on campus...