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...students were struck. unaware--this week's issue of the Yard Bulletin warned first-year of the virus and told them to consult the Science Center help desk if they encountered problems...
...first-year representative will be elected in the fall from the class of 2003. --Sasha A. Haines-Stiles
...party last year, Marc A. Lindemann, a first-year student a Harvard Law School (HLS), met some students from the Kennedy school of Government (KSG). As the conversation progressed, they discovered they had some thing in common: a love for the game of squash...
However, this near-sighted approach neglects the very qualities of a "nebulous" conception of blocking. Each student's unique first-year experience produces an infinitely diverse array of personal bonds. Reducing any particular network of friendships to mere factors of size of intimacy ignores their individual richness and worth. It is up to each individual student--through personal introspection and open dialogue--to determine the ideal blocking group. The end result might happen to be a large, small, tight-knit or diffuse group. It could mean a group that encapsulates one's entire social circle or one that exists solely...
...close friends and potential roommates. Rarely should it be an entire social circle. But the hazy purpose of blocking groups is again not reason to restrict students' ability to choose with whom to live throughout their college years. Rather, it is reason for the Houses, upperclass students and first-year proctors to clarify the purpose of blocking groups to first-years before these misinterpretations gel. Blocking should be addressed far before first-year housing forms are due in March so as to explain that a blocking group should never encompass one's entire social circle but rather provide students with...