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...fall. It sounded like a great deal: just fill out a short form and you get your own private mentor, an upperclassman "committed" to showing freshmen the Harvard ropes. The application blurb glowingly promises--in language reminiscent of day camp brochures--"the fun of making friends." Who doesn't need a friend freshman week? "Students Helping Students (SHS)--We are just what we sound like," read the advertisement for the organization. Well, not quite...
...filled out applications randomly distributed by Kyriazis and friends the preceding spring. No guides were interviewed. "The board read the applications and as long as the people seemed to have common sense and took the questions seriously, we accepted them," Mason said. Mason asserted that SHS doesn't need people "with special talents," because it provides "informal counseling." "We just need people with a desire to help fresmen," she added. By January it was clear that counseling--informal or otherwise--was in very short supply. To help choose freshmen for their absent "friends," Kyriazis decided to consult the Freshmen Register...
Sadly, many feshmen feel very much in need of the services an organization such as the SHS might provide. Rubin observes that many students in the first weeks have asked Freshman Task Force members how they can get a guide. Without an alternative to bureaucratic doubletalk and summer camp slogans, SHS will collapse under its own weight. SHS will not fail from lack of freshman interest...
Many of the bill's opponents, moreover, voiced fears that the department would become the mouthpiece for the National Educational Association, the group which joined the White House to lobby for the bill. If so, then college officials need not worry about more regulation; the NEA has traditionally focused on primary and secondary education...
Officials need not worry, therefore, that the agency will bring increased federal influence to bear on higher education programs. At the least, the department appears to be a new framework for old policies; at most, however, it will require universities to fight harder for federal funds