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...College must commit to making Harvard an intellectually and socially stimulating campus. The SLAO is working to address some of the issues surrounding parties, and, if we reach out to students and resident deans early, I hope that current issues will not persist through April Visiting Weekend for pre-frosh. With the creative minds on this campus, we can certainly work together to make Harvard a fun campus for everyone. That’s something we can all raise a glass to. Timothy D. Turner ’09, president of the Harvard Black Students Association, is an economics concentrator...
This past Saturday, CSA hosted its annual Iron Chef Showdown between various cultural groups. This year, the Harvard African Students Association challenged challenged CSA’s reign in an all-out clash of cultures that drew in club members, students, and even pre-frosh...
...step over some people to find your place. Punch season is no different. Being the veterans of three unsuccessful punch campaigns, we’d like to give you some tips. From the coveted first envelope to partying on your club’s lawn with the sleaziest pre-frosh to circling the globe in your club’s private hovercraft, Prestige and Mobility will go the extra mile. For example, be conventional. Wear clothes that look like they cost $3, but are from an era where $3 bought a house. That means powdered wigs, pocket squares, and fine...
...faculty can broaden kids' academic and social perspectives. As dean of the Commons, Frank Wcislo has films and forums in his living room, a.k.a. Wcislo's Salon. The 10 profs who live in the Commons' dorms host similar extracurriculars, and 55 others have agreed to come hang out with frosh. But amid all this bonding with authority figures, there's a risk that some students won't learn independence. "A very small percentage of students see me as a father figure, but I try to discourage that," says sociologist Tony Brown, who opens his dorm apartment on Friday evenings...
Corralling frosh makes it easier to prevent their dropping out or becoming misfits. But if you make freshman year one big group hug, will kids be unprepared for the wilds of second year? Maybe. And yet some colleges have concluded that the way to deal with the problems potentially caused by coddling is to do even more of it. That's one reason the University of Maine is developing a program to help combat the sophomore slump by building on what first-years learned in Froshville. Vanderbilt has a $1.75 billion capital campaign to turn all the rest...