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Most Houses and first-year dorm common rooms set up televisions where students and tutors gathered to watch the news, while others listened to radios or logged on to news sites to stay informed...
Every September, the Freshman Arts Program (FAP), the First-Year Outdoor Program (FOP) and the First-Year Urban Program (FUP) introduce first-years to their classmates and orient them to life at Harvard. These programs and the many others that operate before upperclass registration are dependent on the older students who donate their time and effort to improving the first-year experience. Without these upperclass students, there would be no hikes in New England, no talent shows, no smiling faces at the Freshman Activities Fair or in Harvard admissions brochures...
...time that a student volunteers to do a service to fellow students at the University’s request, Harvard has a responsibility to provide basic support. The ability to eat while participating in first-year orientation is not an unreasonable demand. But because Harvard did not live up to this responsibility, numerous groups had to purchase meals for their upperclass leaders out of scarce resources that should have been applied to the orientation programs themselves...
...first-ever Report on Undergraduate Women’s Initiatives at Harvard made a quiet debut last week at the first-year activities fair. The 24-page report—the first-ever compilation of campus women’s group offerings—calls for greater support for women undergraduates and a more central role for the Ann Radcliffe Trust, which funds projects related to women’s issues...
...wish I had had something like this as a freshman,” said Chanda Prescod-Weinstein ’03, co-chair of sexual orientation group Girlspot. She said the compilation will be especially useful to first-year females choosing among groups...