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...Annenberg Chef Larry Houston hurries out of an evening PSLM meeting, he carries the credentials of a full-fledged member of the liberal establishment. He was involved in the Living Wage Campaign last year and represents the workers of the first-year dining hall as their Union Shop Steward. In a moment, he will become their political nemesis...
...then I didn’t need to think too much about what had happened”, he confides. He goes on to say, “I started making friends and became involved in school activities…I think that really helped”. Now a Harvard first-year, Edgar finds the ‘ordinary’ aspects of college life the hardest to get used to. “I had never seen snow before and the American food was hard to adjust to. We sometimes try to make Sierra Leonian food, but its just...
...Prescott St. and looked for my name on the alphabetized lists of those fortunate few who got in. Like the vast majority of applicants, my name was not on the lists. For some, rejection starts before arrival on campus: Each year, the Freshman Arts Program (FAP), the First-Year Outdoor Program (FOP) and the First-Year Urban Program (FUP) have to turn away interested students. It’s a pretty weird way to welcome 18-year-olds to college...
...staff member told me. “It’s us.” Many Harvard students have set impossibly high standards for themselves, and the gauntlet of inevitable rejections that Harvard presents can—does—wreak havoc on them. First comes first-year orientation programs, then freshman seminars, maybe honors-only concentrations, definitely seminars and conference courses. Worse are the extracurriculars: “comping” the Advocate, the Crimson, or the Lampoon; the arduous Let’s Go applications and interviews; some PBHA programs and other committees (even, ironically, Room...
...priorities of this University lies with the students. There are many avenues for social action—mentoring and after-school programs as well as advocacy and peer counseling—and I was gratified to know of so many new students seeking those avenues through the First-Year Urban Program and the First-Year Day of Service, and to see them streaming through the PBHA open houses. We should strive with them and with relief effort participants to engage more regularly in activities of “compassion and consequence,” a phrase Dean of the Faculty...