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...committee will be comprised of Interim Dean of Advising Programs Inge-Lise Ameer alongside representatives from the Freshman Dean’s Office, Athletics Department, the Office of Student Life, the Facilities Maintenance Office, and three students—two members of the Undergraduate Council and one Peer Advising Fellow. We are pleased to see the College incorporating student input in the committee decision process. However, students should have also had greater say in actually outlining the requirements and the evaluative standards by which students will be allowed to stay. We also commend the College for making the Office...
...senior looking back on my Camp Harvard experience, I find it nearly impossible to remember the flurry of activities that took place during freshman week, and much more so the information we were supposed to have learned from each planned event. However, three years later, “Sex Signals,” a freshman week rite of passage, still stands apart from everything else that filled the pages of the Calendar of Opening Days. After attending the performance this week, I can report few changes have been made over the years...
...sponsored event actually seemed to encourage the students to laugh at attitudes that are present during sexual assault. When one of the actors mimicked a male stereotype about sex yelling, “We see what we want and we go get it! Yeah?,” a male freshman in the crowd yelled back, “Fuck yeah!” to cheers and laughs throughout the audience. Does dialogue like this truly discourage rape...
...During the last third of the show, the issue of sexual assault is addressed directly, yet still unsatisfactorily. An ambiguous scene is described where drunken sexual intercourse takes place. At the end of the scene, the freshman audience is asked whether the man clearly raped the woman. A few hands go up around the room. The audience is then asked whether the man clearly did not rape the woman. Again, a few hands go up around the room. When the audience is asked if it is unclear whether rape occurred in this vague scene, the vast majority of students...
...full of raised hands (combined with the free condoms in every dorm) might give the impression that everyone on campus is having sex. The cavalier attitude expressed by the university toward sexual activity could be just enough to nudge some freshmen into sexual activity. During my first year, the Freshman Dean’s Office hosted an event called, “Hooking Up: Hot Hints For Making Your Harvard (Or Future) Sex Life Great” billed as “An All-Out Guide to Sex and Sexuality” with “sexxxxxy suggestions?...