Word: pre-freshman
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AYOUNG MAN on the West Coast placed a call to Cambridge the other day. The subject of the call was Harvard. A pre-freshman was asking for advice. The Harvard senior who answered the telephone had no answers--only questions of his won, "Call back," he said. "Call back tomorrow...
...ignorant hopeful pre-freshman was I. Although raised beyond the pale of college hockey. I learned all about the ECAC, the Beanpot, and Harvard vs. B.U. from PBS broadcasts in the mid-'70s (sadly discontinued). Rereading old accounts of Dave Connors's sudden-death heroics confirmed that the game was, indeed, a Big Deal...
Rally organizers also said it is "hypocritical" of the University to sponsor extensive minority recruitment. Including a separate pre-freshman orientation for Third World students, but not endorse such events during freshman week...
Ironically, the University is not even consistent in rejecting "separatist" activities for minorities. The minority pre-freshman spring weekend is about as "separatist" as any event at Harvard, but the University continues to foot the bill. The reason is simple. Minority students do have special reservations about coming to Harvard; if the weekend were eliminated, many fewer minorities would matriculate. As long as it is trying to attract minorities, Harvard must address their special needs. Once minority students are here, though, the urgency is gone...
After that, minority recruiters enter another few days of frenzy, engaging in a "Call-a-Thon" to all accepted minority students and planning for a late-April "pre-freshman" minority weekend. For the rest of the staff the respite is briet: interviewing for the Class of 1987 begins...