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...first-years, it's the first day in a new environment. It doesn't hurt to check in the mirror one more time to make sure that you didn't get toothpaste on your shirt. Bad hygiene habits might spell the end of a budding friendship in your Ec 10 section...
Ostensibly, the goal was to make a few new friends. But after an hour of eagerly lining up to exchange our name and hometown for technicolor yarn, many of us quickly became nauseous. Friendship, it became clear, was not about introducing yourself to everybody in sight...
...addition to the improvements we expect within the Houses, we anticipate a healthier atmosphere outside them. Not living in the same physical structure is no obstacle to friendship, and we are sure that as relationships survive across Houses, strong inter-house networks will form, improving the overall campus dynamic. Universal keycard access would help these networks thrive while also ensuring students' safety...
There is also good reason to think that eight is a bad size for a blocking group. There are suites of more than eight people in many houses. Some students do in fact have close friendship groups of more than eight people, and the lower limit would make the blocking process even more difficult for first-years. Such a low limit also makes it more difficult for mixed-gender blocking groups, which must already divide up into rooming groups...
...Eight is actually not a small number for a friendship group," Lewis wrote in the e-mail message. "It's large enough to accommodate most close friendship groups, including groups involving both men and women, but small enough to ensure that students from one block will get to know other students in the House and to enable the gender ratios to be well balanced everywhere in the future...