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...Over the last eight months, Blake, with the help of his staff of about 25, has been developing what he calls peer-to-peer contacts. Veterans call veterans, high school students call high school students and so forth. Seven staffers reach out to black voters, for example, and three handle Latino voters - even though Latinos make up only 3% of Iowa's population of three million and there are only 67,000 blacks in the whole state, according to the 2006 census. "[This] is exactly why it's a problem for the Clinton campaign to bring in 100 new staffers...
...hours to style it for competition—and her skin shimmers with glitter spray, glitter powder, and roll-on body glitter. Of course, glitter isn’t her whole life. She’s also a member of the ballroom dance team, a Drug and Alcohol Peer Adviser, and a member of Phillips Brooks House’s Chinatown Afterschool Program. She recently declared a concentration in Biological Anthropology.But here in Mather Dining Hall, in between bites of mixed greens and red chili hummus, Liles is all twirler. She performs her signature move. It is called the layback...
Other counseling resources for students include Harvard University Health Services (UHS), the Bureau of Study Counsel, and a host of peer counseling groups. Several administrators from UHS did not return requests for comment yesterday...
...single person.” We could not agree more, and, in fact, that is why first-year advising is designed with built-in redundancy. We believe that this is the best way to provide freshmen with a network of advisers, from proctors to non-resident advisers to peer fellows to concentration advisers, none of whom could—or should—be expected to know everything about every course and every concentration. It is with this in mind that first-year advising provides students with multiple points of entry to advice. In fact, we always recommend that advisers...
...sure, the first-year advising program faces challenges. With 685 advisers (438 non-resident advisers, 51 percent of whom are faculty plus 62 proctors and 185 peer advisers) and 1,675 students (not to mention 44 concentrations and well over a hundred advisers in the concentrations), making the right academic choices can seem confusing or overwhelming at times, and navigating the curriculum can be complicated. We do see areas for improvement in first-year advising. But freshmen surveys, focus groups, conversations with students, their parents and alumni over the last couple of years indicate that there is a growing satisfaction...