Word: froshes
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...with school and become campus leaders if they spend time with faculty. Which is why the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville created Core Connections, which lets mostly freshmen opt to live in two dorms where attendance at faculty-planned events is required. The University of Maine now makes all frosh live together in dorms with new support networks. Ditto for Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., where first-years are also encouraged to go on hikes with the profs who lead their freshman seminars and to debate them at town meetings...
...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...
...Board of Freshmen Advisers to advise the class of 2012 in navigating through their choices and easing their anxieties. We are also well aware of the need for better internal communication within the College, which would have averted some of the gaps in information that was available to pre-frosh and their families this past week...
...report better before it becomes policy,” said Tyler W. Bosmeny ’09, who is also Crimson associate business manager. “I am concerned about areas that are too vague such as whether or not students will have to limit events for pre-frosh weekend...
...element in the VIP section, surrounded by members of the Association of Black Harvard Women and Eleganza organizers. At 8:30 p.m., the show begins, and social butterfly Adelman must take her seat. “I heart Eleganza. I’ve been going since pre-frosh year,” she recalls. Mere weeks away from becoming a Harvard graduate, Adelman appreciates that her days of partying are dwindling. “I’ll miss that sort of freedom that comes with partying in the college scene,” she says. But here, tonight, it?...