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...When I came here to Harvard. I was sort of alarmed that I'd be the lone veteran, and I was almost right," Griffith A. (Griff) Marton '75, a 26-year-old transfer student from a junior college in California, says. "There had been lots of veterans where I came from, so we were relaxed, the professors knew how to react to us, the college was experienced in handling veterans problems. It was a lot different from here...
...your article on transfer students (The Crimson, April 9), you quote a student, Griffith Marton, saying that he found a reluctance among his fellow students and staff to discuss such questions as the purpose of East Asian studies. As Grif Marton knows, there has been a special weekly colloquium in East Asian Studies to discuss precisely such questions. Mr. Marton has not once attended. This is, of course, his privilege, but I marvel that a student could say that because he does not participate, it does not exist. Ezra F. Vegel, Chairman Committee on the A.B. Degree In East Asian...
After having heard so much about Harvard's tutorial system, his junior tutorial in East Asian studies turned out to be a "disaster"--too many people with too many different interests and too little guidance from the graduate student who taught the course. Even more disturbing. Marton has perceived little willingness on the part of professors or students to consider just why it is important to study East Asian subjects, Marton's own interest is an outgrowth of deeply emotional reflections on his combat experiences and he has found it frustrating that so many concentrators in the department seem...
...Despite Marton's experiences, the complaint voiced most frequently by transfers concerns housing, not academics. The admissions office only admits transfers; Eleanor C. Marshall, assistant to the deans of Harvard and Radcliffe College for Housing, and the housing office are responsible for placing the transfers in Houses. And in the past few years, the policy has been to place them to the Quad Houses where there are more unfilled spaces. For many students the fact that the Radcliffe Houses to which they are assigned place them at 29 Garden Street only adds insult to injury "I came to Harvard...
Both David Cantelme '76 and Marton have benefitted from the bias toward junior colleges. Cantelme was admitted from Glendale Community College, a small junior college located in a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona. He was one of only two students admitted last year to Harvard during the "moratorium" on transfer admissions to the college. Due to overcrowding. Radcliffe continued to admit transfers--six residents and 14 non-residents, in all--"because we were never told not to," says Cohen...