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...proposed system of selectively excluding some students from housing during J-Term is misguided at best and dishonest at worst. The university’s current approach to J-Term housing seems overly and unnecessarily restrictive. Current guidelines suggest that only thesis writers with a compelling research need, students working in labs, international students, and members of 19 varsity sports teams have been categorized as groups likely guaranteed to be approved. This narrow categorization leaves out many other students who may have a strong reason for requiring housing. For example, those participating in community-service programs, those constrained by financial...
...effort to create a coordinated university-wide calendar, Interim President Derek C. Bok in 2007 approved a new month-long break between semesters at the College, known colloquially as J-Term and officially as Winter Break. This January marks the first time in recent history that, from Jan. 4 through Jan. 22, students will no longer be hunkering down in library carrels preparing for final exams. Instead, undergraduates will be pursuing self-directed activities on campus or will be required to vacate the premises. Unfortunately, that choice, which should rest with students, instead depends largely on the whims...
...while the limits on J-Term housing have been largely billed as a necessity of budget restrictions, similar to other cuts undertaken recently by the university, we sense that the primary reason for limiting housing during January actually stems from a very different set of concerns—namely, fear in the administration that students will misbehave without highly structured activities to occupy their time and without a full residential staff to monitor them. In April, Dean of Students Evelynn M. Hammonds said that after the decision was made not to provide January programming, administrators did not want idle students...
College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds e-mailed students earlier today to announce the unveiling of the much delayed application for J-Term housing. You can find it here. The app is pretty short, so you might as well fill it out soon and not play chicken with the Oct. 15 deadline. A couple of things to note after the jump...
...application wastes no time making clear that your swipe cards will not work in Houses if you are not approved for J-Term. So if you're hoping to crash with your more J-Term eligible roommate, you'll have to live with the inconvenience of calling them every time you need...