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...American Council on Education, only 17% of last year's college freshmen thought it was important to be involved in an environmental program, half the percentage of 1992. A majority of 2003 freshmen--53%--wanted affirmative action abolished, compared with only 43% of all adults. Two-thirds of frosh favored abortion rights in 1992; only 55% did so in last year's survey. Support for gun control has slipped in recent years among the young, and last year 53% of students believed that "wealthy people should pay a larger share of taxes than they do now," compared with...
...parents stayed at home to work, but she was familiar with the campus from her visit over pre-frosh weekend. She had spoken with her four freshman-year roommates, and on that day, her nervousness prompted her to be more outgoing than usual...
...women’s pile.” Once the clerical error was fixed, the Senior Class Committee was won over by Burkle’s speech, which he says was inspired in part by an encounter at a cocktail party he attended as a pre-frosh. “I met one terrible Harvard person,” Burkle said, “and I was like ‘I swear I will never be that man.’” Nevertheless, Burkle fears that in some ways he has not been able to escape...
...Wong has been an integral part of MIHNUET ever since she first stepped foot on campus four years ago. The group, which she discovered at a pre-frosh weekend activities fair, has become what she says will be a highlight of her undergraduate experience...
...cooler than anywhere else.”—Member of the class of 2010, on what it was like to visit HarvardA popular thing to do at the end of one’s senior year is to dispense advice. The pastime becomes particularly fashionable pre-frosh weekend, but seems to gather momentum every day after. The basic principle as far as I can tell: having endured the most years of college, seniors are in a unique position to be wise, and they should distribute their wisdom accordingly. If they do this, then the next generation of students...