Word: freshmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adds that Harvard's policy of havingall freshmen live together eases the transition.Since everyone must make the transition at thesame time, they all feel equally lost...
...example that Hernandez-Gravelle cites isthat of a roommate asking, "So why do you keepcalling your mother, Maria, all the time." Shesays that freshmen who do not understand the closefamily bonds of some minority groups do notrealize that their remarks are inappropriate, sothe College needs to educate them...
Hernandez-Gravelle is in the process ofstarting a peer counseling group that will helpstudents come to terms with racial issues. Membersof the new group may make presentations aboutracial tolerence to groups of freshmen, as othercounseling groups--like Peer ContraceptiveCounseling...
...feeling is that we don't havemuch of a problem with dishonesty, but we've got alot of problem with ignorance," says Marius,adding that high schools do not train students touse the kinds of primary sources that Harvardrequires them to use. Marius says the FreshmanWeek discussions gave freshmen "a kind of jolt tomake them think about...
...thought we would win but not by as much as we did," Harvard Coach Frank Haggerty said. "We had a lot of freshmen out there in their first college competition, and they performed remarkably well...