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...heading for home, one kisses one’s classmates, nascent New Yorkers all, goodbye. Even more difficult is abruptly ending a four-year long romp with the American dream, bidding farewell to the expectations of greatness bred into every single Harvard student by our education and our peer group. The hubris of American culture largely trickles down from the elites educated at schools like this, and even a conscientious objector is hard pressed to emerge unmarked by an irrational conviction that things in this country are, in fact, bigger and better than they are at home.At...
...variety of fields would be a good start. For example, each freshman Yard might have a group of specialty advisors—proctors or graduate students in different fields—who would hold regular office hours in Annenberg that any first-year could attend. Furthermore, the Peer Advising program might be focused around disciplines—each Peer Advising Fellow would be regularly available to advise first-year students (even those outside their assigned entryway) on his or her concentration. These specialty advisors would be far better positioned than a general academic advisor to answer questions about specific courses...
...class slots in film and creative writing; professional direction and support in theater; practice facilities for music; rehearsal space for drama; studios for the plastic arts. Cross-School and cross-unit collaborations are underdeveloped, and resources have not kept pace with changing needs. Many of our peer institutions have, in recent years, undertaken serious expansion in arts programming, offering us both models to consider and a challenge to act. The arts play a central role in the lives of so many students and faculty at Harvard, yet their role in the life of the University remains uncertain and undefined...
...Expos and the College can also dramatically expand the trained peer support currently offered to students as they work on their analytical writing. Far from being “under-utilized,” the Writing Center cannot keep up with demand from concentrators and senior thesis writers. To address the need, Expos has committed more funds to the Center to add more tutorial hours; furthermore, the program has recruited and funded advanced graduate students as Departmental Writing Fellows to help students with discipline-specific writing in the concentrations. For this pilot year, the Fellows are currently in History...
...system, disadvantaging students with fewer college-counseling resources at hand. Combined with the additional recruitment, Harvard’s policy should make for a more diverse and interesting class. Though there has been concern in some quarters that ending early admissions will cause Harvard to lose top applicants to peer schools that have retained early admissions policies, we believe the risk to be minimal. The admissions office seems to be combating this concern with “letters of intent,” missives sent to top athletic candidates, mathematicians, and musicians in advance of official admissions decisions expressing interest...