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...decision by Arthur L. and Lotje Loeb to step down from their posts as masters of Dudley House offers the University a chance to reconsider the ongoing problem of providing off-campus students with the services they need...
...after one semester at Harvard, about half of the transfer students decide to become off-campus affiliates of a residential house and have their paperwork transferred there. Forcing all transfer students to affiliate with Dudley when they first come to Harvard makes for confusion when they have to switch advisers and familiarize themselves to a whole new house. Worse still, it keeps transfer students from integrating into house social life--the mainstream of the campus...
Dudley House should continue to provide special services, but only to the students who want them: off-campus students by choice. These students have different needs than most Harvard undergraduates, such as a lounge for the day and lockers. Dudley House and its new masters will be able to serve these students better if they did not have to deal with a group of unhappy transfer students who will want to leave after a semester anyway...
...deserve the same respect and fair treatment as students who came here as freshmen. But because we missed the first year, the University has all the more reason to make sure we thoroughly enjoy the "Harvard experience." However, transfers are affiliated with Dudley House and placed in off-campus housing like Botanical Gardens (a.k.a. Watertown), or Peabody Terrace. Geographically and socially, we are on the dull edges of the Harvard community...
...accepted what was originally offered to me--which is what most transfers have to do--I would have been left off-campus until next spring. Out of three years at Harvard, I would have spent only one-third of the time living in a residential house. Does that mean I would have to enjoy the Harvard experience only one-third as much? After all, we are only one-third of the student that the rest...