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...report on the first-year experience released to the student body today, the College's administration shared some of its newfound knowledge: students do not like Expository Writing 20; teaching fellows who do not speak English are detrimental to learning; students often have rooming disputes, exacerbated by cramped housing; and many students are dissatisfied with their social lives...
...Jules L. Dienstag, dean for medical education, wrote in an e-mailed statement that first-year medical school students take two required month-long classes during their J-term, while second-year students take a Human Systems course that spans about seven months, including January...
...September 2007, vibrant campus leader and first-year Yale Law student Joseph M. Hanzich ’06 passed away of a sudden heart attack in New Haven. Today, some of his close friends and family are working in conjunction with Harvard to ensure that his passion for health policy survives in perpetuity...
...director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. “It’s like having the opportunity to engage the real world and choosing to deny yourself even the possibility.” Law professor Richard D. Parker, who restricted laptop usage when he taught first-year students, said he did not see the educational value of allowing Internet use during class but he also did not support the University of Chicago’s prohibition. “One of the arguments is that our students are adults and if they want to allow themselves...
Come next fall, Massachusetts Hall will reopen its doors to its most deserving residents: first-year students. After the transfer of control of Mass. Hall from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) to the University’s central administration in the summer of 2006, the University announced last spring that no members of the class of 2011 would be placed in Mass. Hall as freshmen. This discontinuation of a time-honored tradition for Harvard first-years was unfortunate for pragmatic and symbolic reasons, and the decision to invite freshmen back into Mass. Hall is one that reflects well...