Word: prefecting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last Tuesday I attended a date rape workshop at the first-year entryway where I am a prefect. The statistics given were staggering: One out of four college women have been raped, usually by someone they know. In one study, 30 percent of college men said they would commit rape if they thought they could get away with it. When the word "rape" was not used, 50 percent of the men surveyed said they would commit acts meeting the legal definition of rape...
After almost a month as a first-time prefect, however, I can tell you the real rationale behind sending two cynical, overworked elders to have milk and cookies with impressionable young minds once a week. It's an administration plot to restore our faith in Harvard and create happy and optimistic upperclasspeople...
...doubts last year as to my suitability as a prefect. "I don't bounce," I said to a good friend who is a veteran prefect. "I'm not an irrepressibly cheerful person and I find it difficult to be enthusiastic about anything except my hometown...
...prefect, I get an adrenaline rush even before I have one of my proctor's cookies. These students actually know my name and act like I could have something significant to say about their lives. It's nice to feel wanted...
...Prefect Hamilton Chan '95 said he heard thatFacilities Maintenance "objected to the huntbecause they thought the Yard was pretty...