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...University of California at Berkley instituted a new slogan for its famed Condom Week: “When you rise…condomize.” Three thousand miles to the east and 25 years later, Harvard’s Community Health Initiative (CHI) still denies first-year men the resources to fulfill that prophetic motto. Thankfully, the Undergraduate Council recently passed a bill to support the placement of condoms in all freshmen dorms to supplement the current supply in the Houses—a move that Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman ’67 has encouraged...
...Beijing University first-year Sherry Zhao, Harvard will be her first taste of America.The first-time visitor to the United States is crashing at Eliot House, interacting with professors, and trying her hand at throwing clay at the University’s ceramics studio.“My hosts are very nice, the air is very fresh, and the campus is just very beautiful,” she said.Zhao is one of 39 students from Asian universities visiting Harvard this week as part of the Harvard College in Asia Project (HCAP), a rapidly expanding program that offers cultural exchange between...
...compressed into the space of only two semesters. Our professors believe that students need an intensive three-year program in a specific field, complete with its own course of tutorials, which must start at the beginning of sophomore year. This adds a specific pressure to Harvard’s freshman year that is not felt by students at other programs across the country.Even as they attempt to decide on three-year programs of concentration, first year students are crowded with other requirements. First of all, there is the much-maligned Expository Writing requirement. If all goes well under the present...
...evening’s early game, as further fodder for subscribers to the notion of newfound neutrality, Boston University, a first-year varsity program, dominated Northeastern, the all-time leader in female Beanpot crowns with...
...undergrad. He tells jokes. He earnestly invokes “Chicken Soup for the Soul.” His demeanor is humble but authoritative; his points are delivered with tense conviction. He often recounts stories from his days at Harvard and gives examples that involve Harvard-specific phenomena like first-year blocking...