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...also approved its seventh grants package of the semester last night, with the Finance Committee awarding $6,680.77 to students groups including the last $100 out of the $5,000 prefect fund...
...affiliating freshmen with residential houses suggests—it would be wise to encourage upperclassmen-freshmen interaction from the moment freshmen set foot in the Yard. However, it shouldn’t end when freshman week does. The Freshman Dean’s Office (FDO) should consider expanding the Prefect Program to several prefects per entryway, which may in turn require increased publicity around the time prefect applications are due. And prefects should be encouraged, if not required, to be on campus during freshman week in order to provide friendly faces and convenient advice early...
Haan said that he plans to work with the prefect program to put more emphasis on the freshman experience, saying that first years lack the benefit of social perks offered by House life and social committees...
...help fix advising, the prefect program should be enlarged to assign each student to an informal prefect advisor in his/her proposed field of concentration. This proposal would help increase interaction between freshmen and upperclassmen, and provide students with yet another advising resource. Concentrations should also begin to shoulder more of the advising burden, instead of dumping the responsibility on House tutors. Additionally, in all likelihood the HCCR will change the date when students declare their concentrations. If students declare their concentrations earlier, they will already have access to faculty concentration advisors during their first year. If concentrations are declared...
...We’re busy, and our prefect set up the study break [sign-up] list on top of the stairs,” explains Ned D.H. Levin ’08 of Straus. As of yet, no one has made the trek up the stairs to sign up to host...