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Fisher's role at the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning is no abdication from weighty governmental issues, however, because more than simply supervising the attempted placement of students in jobs they want, Fisher is witnessing what he is convinced is a cultural adjustment of mammoth significance. With the burgeoning proportion of college graduates in the work force, and the presence in the culture of more and more institutions directed towards the educated, society experiences a "geometric jump" in its numbers of educated masses, he says. The growing pains are tough, Fisher concedes, because college graduates must learn...
Perhaps the most pervasive sentiment among off-campus dwellers is their feeling of isolation. The isolation is refreshing for some but frightening for others...
...from the bustle of the Square and the institutional ivy of Harvard. But once you cross the worn porch to knock on the wooden double doors, you leave the restrained neighborhood surroundings behind and enter a lively, self-contained community of forty Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates. While not quite off-campus, students at the Dudley co-op are as far away from Harvard dorm life as it is possible to be while still paying rent to the President and Fellows...
Dudley co-op residents enjoy the advantages of off-campus living--cheapness, varied and vegetarian food, non-academic surroundings and a togetherness rarely felt in Harvard dining halls--while avoiding the feeling of isolation from a student community that off-campus residents often experience. After sharing the responsibilities of maintaining a large household, the members have developed an insulation from some tensions of the larger Harvard community, an attitude of amused tolerance toward the way most Harvard students choose to live, and an attachment to their own small group which at the outset partially excludes all outsiders...
...Many off-campus residents, like their less than wealthy predecessors, claim that they save money by living off campus. One Radcliffe senior says, "I pay half as much now for food as I did when I lived in Eliot House. And rent is a lot cheaper too." But generally speaking, expenses for students living off campus are about the same as they are for those who live in the Houses. One common misconception, however, is that only those undergraduates who live off campus are required to pay the $310 college facilities fee when, in fact students living on campus...