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...program will make it possible for freshmen to receive solid advising that connects them to the Harvard community before the school year even begins, and that is consistent across the freshmen class and throughout the year. The program will also preserve the most important aspects of the Prefect Program, which makes important contributions to the coherence of first-year residential life...
...program will exceed both the current first-year advising system and the Prefect Program in its structure and thoroughness. A given month will comprise a well-ordered set of events, geared at bringing together freshmen who share interests. One week would hold an informal meeting of a peer advising group, where first-years would be able to benefit from each others’ questions and experiences, and the insight of their shared peer adviser. An entryway study break would take place another week, and Peer Advising Fellows would attend their assigned entryways to mingle and answer questions...
...next fall, freshmen will receive academic advice from upperclassmen who will also fulfill the function of prefects, Associate Dean of Advising Programs Monique M. Rinere announced yesterday in a press release. The changes come at the forefront of an overhaul of the advising system as recommended in the ongoing curricular review. The peer advising fellows will receive a stipend of $1000 for the academic year, the press release said. Freshmen, sophomores, and juniors can apply to be among the College’s first 180 peer advising fellows. The College administration has said it will fund the program from...
...Sopen B. Shah ’08, and former UC presidential candidate John F. Voith ’07. Earlier in the semester, Riley organized several meetings with groups with experience planning campus-wide social events—the HCC, Harvard Pub Night Commission, Crimson Key Society, Prefect Program, FYSC, Senior Class Committee, H-Club, and several cultural groups—in order to “gain insight from successful social programmers on campus...how best to structure a programming board.” Riley also asked council members to meet with their constituents...
...first new Cardinal to get his hat, former San Francisco Archbishop William J. Levada, was Benedict?s biggest surprise. Levada was named last August to take the Pope?s old job as the Church?s point man on all doctrinal issues as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a post that Cardinal Ratzinger held under John Paul for 24 years. When Benedict gave the job to Levada, a friend since the two worked together in Rome in the early 1980s, most Vatican insiders were shocked, having expected a European intellectual heavyweight in the post. Message: Benedict...