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...have packed schedules could eat outside the dining halls,” said Carey W. Hynes ’09. “I don’t see the harm in giving students both options.” But Olivia G. Volkoff ’09, a first-year transfer student from Columbia, who ate with a flexible points plan at her previous college, said she supported keeping Harvard’s unlimited meal plan. “Freshman year, everyone at Columbia is forced to eat in the freshman dining hall. After that, though, everyone gets...
Organizing the event were Andrew Lobb, a fifth-year Harvard graduate student specializing in algebraic topology and geometry—“particularly seven-dimensional laser calculus”—and Ronen Mukamel ’05, a first-year MIT grad student with similar research interests...
...State, there wasn’t a whole lot of lead time for us or for them.” Walsh will look to fill Wilkins’ shoes despite compiling only a 3-13-1 record last year with a young Crimson squad. But the inexperienced team, led by freshman goaltender and Rookie of the Year Lauren Mann and fellow first-year Ivy standout Lizzy Nichols, showed signs of progression in Walsh’s system toward the end of the 2006 campaign. Penn State will look to harness this ability of Walsh to bring out the best...
...their living situation. ‘DORMCEST WORKS’J.T. Scarry ’07 and Evelyn Lilly ’07 have known each other since the first day of freshman move-in, when they both took residence in the same entryway in Grays Hall. Scarry writes in an e-mail that their first interaction was likely “one of those awkward first-year ‘Hi, my name is X and I come from Y and my intended concentration is Z’ conversations.”They got to know each other because...
...almost exclusively by, well, freshmen. Furthermore, the targeted party fund increases will only provide yet another opportunity for freshmen to remain isolated from the rest of the campus community. There is already remarkably little interaction between freshmen and older students. It seems unwise to further widen the gap between first-year students and the university as a whole by incentivizing freshmen to stay away from the houses. Outside the Yard’s walls, however, there are real opportunities to invigorate a decrepit social scene. Gatherings in upperclass houses, which were the original target of the UC party fund...