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Were entryways to be comprised of freshmen with a common housing assignment, students would be much more likely to choose to form friendships with their entryway-mates, their future housemates. Upperclassmen assigned to entryways as prefects or peer advisers would be able to take advantage of the common ground of a shared housing assignment as a starting point for their advising and mentoring relationships. And linking entryways to Houses would also allow freshman participation in special House events—panels, formal dinners, and faculty events—which would be a great boon to the freshman experience...
...undergraduate life woes. For one thing, disparities in the distance between the Yard and individual Houses would complicate the integration of freshmen into farther a field Houses, like Mather and the Quad. But such drawbacks could be easily mitigated by minor details in a pre-assignment policy. For example, peer advisers would be given access to Annenberg, and would be expected to have meals and interactions with their advisees in the Yard. And when it comes to special House events, the draw of an excellent speaker or of Stein Club should overcome the inconvenience of a short shuttle ride...
...dorms, by clusters of residence halls, or by the specific academic interests expressed by first-years, according to board member Matthew L. Sundquist ’09. Rinere and SAB members discussed the division of the board into subcommittees focused on different areas—including pre-concentration advising, peer advising, faculty advising, and website coordination. The board also began a dialogue on the structure of the new peer advising program that may replace the current prefect system. According to one student present at the meeting, Rinere told the board members that they should keep the contents of the meeting?...
First, the center will centralize women’s and gender resources. Harvard already has a patchwork of different resources that serve women’s specific needs, but they are often dispersed in the basements of houses and uncoordinated. For instance, there are many peer mentoring programs that help students deal with a slew of gender-related issues, yet these programs do not work with each other or with the University-sponsored programs that attempt to do the same thing...
...from Princeton to fill the new position. Arriving on campus on Feb. 27, Rinere made waves her sixth day on the job when she said that the Prefect Program—which matches upperclassmen with freshman entryways—would be “morphed” into a peer-advising group of upperclassmen...