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This fall, however, HUDS is hoping for at minimum “20 percent participation in each population” of upperclass House and first-year dorms, she said...
...Ellison’s list is improving the experience of first-year graduate students—mainly by reducing the Faculty’s reliance on first-years as teaching fellows...
...have little memory for weather, but Yardstick recalls that last Monday the climate was not conducive to protesting Columbus Day. It was cold. But it was also cold three years ago, when Yardstick was a first-year in Weld Hall and Columbus Day protesters chattered outside his window all night long, exchanging the kind of ideas that only emerge in the generous, delirious pall of late night. And on every single recent Columbus Day prior to last Monday, there was another sleep-over j’accuse colloquium on the steps of Widener Library...
Summers should use the expansion of the faculty to improve undergraduate advising. In some departments such as government and economics, advising can be so uneven that students go for years without a serious conversation with a faculty member about their program. The situation is truly appalling, especially for first-years, who may be advised by harried graduate students who know nothing about the college. Summers has already taken on the role of academic adviser to one first-year student. He should now encourage faculty members to do the same and let the distracted Yard proctors concentrate on breaking up parties...
...First-year Coach Tim Pendergast has his hands full in Ithaca, however, as Cornell (0-4, 0-2) is off to one of its worst starts in school history...