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...should. As the top person responsible for the lives of Harvard undergraduates, the dean of the College is someone whose contact with students should extend beyond the closed-door meetings of the mysterious Administrative Board and the limited forum of student-faculty committees, attended regularly by but a select few Undergraduate Council members. More than a dean of students, whose primary job at this school is to oversee extracurricular activities, the dean of the College at Harvard oversees housing, advising and counseling, discipline, athletics--the entirety of the Harvard experience outside of the classroom. Part of that job is taking...
...before deciding what to do in the wake of Fox's departure. Specifically, Spence should solicit more than the views of those who are here for longer than four years. Undergraduates, who will most assuredly be affected by the choice of the next dean, should be involved in the selection process. Besides Undergraduate Council members, we suggest that Spence select at random at least one student from each House and Yard area, who may not necessarily have the council members' familiarity with the College. That way, Spence can get a feeling for how average Harvard students feel about University Hall...
With A Mother and Two Daughters (1982), her fifth novel, Gail Godwin joined that select circle of critically praised authors who have also produced bestsellers. This happy event entitled her longtime admirers to mixed emotions. While it is pleasurable to see a favored writer receive the success she deserves, it is irksome to realize that membership in a small club of discriminating readers has suddenly been thrown open to multitudes. If so many people, the reasoning follows, liked Godwin's loose, loving chronicle of three plucky females, then maybe we should find it disappointing. And whom will she write...
Although these various reputations might appear attractive to certain students, they at the same time turn-other students away. The situation has reached a point where freshmen fear being associated with a certain House's "stereotype" and in turn select their first-choice House by identifying where they don't want to go thus making the current system more a process of elimination than first choice maximization...
Administrators desiring change say they cannot think of a viable alternative to the present plan. Perhaps they should look closely at the so-called modified random plan in the council's referendum. Under this plan, students would be able to select their rooming group and to block with other rooming groups but groups would be placed randomly in a House. This system would allow freshman friends and roommates to live together for the next three years but would at the same time obliterate the crippling stereotypes at many of the more popular Houses...