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...question of whether transfer students were misled concerning their opportunities for on-campus housing is important, but more important is the occasion that has raised it this year--the College's decision to increase its off-campus student population. The policy directly affects not only transfer students but also a certain number of incoming freshmen, and it reflects an attitude on the part of the administration with disturbing ramifications...
Involuntary off-campus students experience, to a greater or lesser degree depending on personality and circumstance, an isolation from the Harvard community. As members of Dudley House they belong to a strangely amorphous group of undergraduates which is split between those who for one reason or another have chosen to live out-side the College and those who have been forced to do so. The former rarely seek association within the House, and the latter, resentful of the stigma of the outcast, tend to stay away unless forced to visit for administrative reasons...
...THESE influences have much the same impact in the realm of off-campus politics. Radical programs for tearing down and replacing existing institutions did not spring full grown from the heads of early SDSers. Subsequent militance evolved slowly, as frustration mounted over a value system called "liberalism." Student protest outside of the university was first motivated by a perceived discrepancy between what middle-class, educated parents had taught their children about American society and what young people actually encountered when they began reading newspapers and travelling the country. Students discovered racism instead of equality; systematic poverty instead of opportunity; Cold...
Martha P. Leape, director of the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning, said that her office has also had more student using job resources "because is increasing number of seniors have decided that their want to work rather than going out to graduate schools...
...attempt to discourage recruiting violations by over-zealous alumni boosters, the NCAA delegates outlawed personal off-campus recruiting by people not on a university's athletic staff. While the measure may cut down on the number of big-time college football recruits driving free Corvettes, it will hinder schools such as Harvard, which have relatively small recruiting budgets and rely on alumni to push promising quarterbacks toward Cambridge rather than Stanford or Ann Anchor. Unlike national football and basketball powers, smaller scale Ivy League teams traditionally have not turned to illegal recruiting practices. The new rule unfairly discriminates against schools...