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...their stomachs and propping broomsticks between their legs. The screening was the first part of “Get Housed” night, which included a study break and a professional “R-rated” hypnotist.Haining Gouinlock ’07, a member of the Prefect board, said that the night was a “way to bring all freshmen together one more time before they get separated into Houses.”In addition to the Prefect Board, other organizers of the event were the Freshman Dean’s Office, the First-Year Social...
...Rinere and SAB members discussed the division of the board into subcommittees focused on different areas—including pre-concentration advising, peer advising, faculty advising, and website coordination. The board also began a dialogue on the structure of the new peer advising program that may replace the current prefect system. According to one student present at the meeting, Rinere told the board members that they should keep the contents of the meeting’s discussions confidential. The SAB will convene again this morning to resume their discussion. The board, assembled within a month of Rinere?...
...Last December, Gross announced plans to hire a dean of advising, tapping Monique Rinere from Princeton to fill the new position. Arriving on campus on Feb. 27, Rinere made waves her sixth day on the job when she said that the Prefect Program—which matches upperclassmen with freshman entryways—would be “morphed” into a peer-advising group of upperclassmen...
...upsetting about this week’s swirl of controversy is that concrete proposals for improving the quality of life of Harvard’s freshmen are being pushed out of the discussion. Instead of swallowing its collective pride and beginning the work of shaping its successor, the Prefect Program’s board seems intent on throwing a tantrum about what it feels was an inadequate amount of consultation. That’s a real shame, since huge improvements to freshman advising aren’t just attainable, they would be remarkably simple to put into place...
When freshmen arrive on campus, another upperclassman from their respective Houses should be assigned as a big brother or big sister to their entryways. This big sibling would fill the void left by the Prefect program in residential life by organizing social activities like study breaks and brunch outings and by working with the entryway’s proctor to ensure the well being of their shared charges. But unlike the Prefect Program, this big sibling would serve as a conduit for freshmen to the House they in which they would live after their freshman year. Brunches, for example, would...