Word: prefect
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...House program and Haddock-Riley supporter. “That truthfulness comes through in the way she speaks and connects with her audiences. Plus, the girl can tell a good story.”In addition to Best Buddies, Riley is also the development chair of CityStep and a prefect in Canaday A. She served on the UC for two years and last year worked on position papers to improve peer advising and inter-house transfers.“You can basically approach her about anything, which is exactly what a prefect should be like,” says Randall...
...worked hard on issues ranging from peer advising to interhouse transfers, but became disillusioned with what she calls the “isolation” in which the UC sometimes works. She decided to focus her energy on her other activities like the Best Buddies Club, CityStep, and the Prefect Program this year...
From a social perspective, the Harvard first-year experience is not unlike a November afternoon: a little chilly, but not exactly frozen either. On paper, the youngest quartile is offered a slew of exceptional accommodations, ranging from an in-house proctor to provide around-the-clock counsel, to a Prefect Program that presents an upperclass perspective, to frosh-only dining designed to engender class cohesion. In reality, however, advising is wholly hit-or-miss, study breaks are largely unattended, and the charm of Annenberg wears thin long before it has ever been appreciated. But the Freshman Dean?...
...have little reason to believe that the SEC will substantially correct the failings of its predecessor, and we suggest instead that the proposed funding for the SEC be disseminated among House Committees (HoCos) and the First Year Social Committee (FYSC), as well as perhaps the ever-needy prefect program. Given the recent successes of the Office of the Dean of the College, we strongly encourage the office—with the appropriate amount of student input, of course—to continue taking on the task of organizing the occasional campus-wide event.The SEC seems to have few advantages over...
...hard to know the specific motivation behind Benedict's desire to meet with each of these surprise visitors. But it is by now clear that the new Pope is conscious that his job description has radically changed. As Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for 20 years, Cardinal Ratzinger had been responsible for keeping certain arguments on theological lock-down. But when you become father to a flock of 1 billion, your dining-room door must be kept as open as possible...