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...their House open lists, but they should not be fooled into believing that the lists will fulfill their desire for debate on weighty matters. Instead, these lists will provide most students with mild entertainment when they have the time to peruse the posts (possibly in digest form). For a select few first-years, House lists will become a forum for their own witty remarks and ruminations. But to debate serious issues, and to create true House community, students will have to venture out of their dorm rooms and search for one another in the real world...
...certain cases, clubs need to be exclusive by basing induction on merit. But unlike an a cappella group, the Hasty Pudding does not select members based on special talents. Indeed, Andrea L. Olshan ’02, the club’s former president, accurately described the Pudding as “the first purely social organization to be accepted as a student group.” And that’s what it is: a once-secret society premised on ad hoc partying. Such organizations have a right to exist outside the auspices of Harvard?...
...Since we select students very carefully for SVMP, we want to ensure that their experience in and out of the classroom is all that it can be. We really hope that many of the students we meet will decide to apply to the MBA program, and that SVMP—an intimate view of the HBS experience and of our community—will be a key factor in their decision-making process,” Dewey said...
...able to have something to go on when they choose their classes; faculty will “be encouraged” to return more graded work to students earlier in the semester so students will have a better sense of what their grades will be like when they select courses; they will also “be encouraged” to be as flexible as possible on enrollments to allow students to switch classes. But if the faculty don’t cooperate, students will pay the price...
...current form, the plan would require students to select classes before the term begins. It has encountered widespread opposition among undergraduates, who organized a petition against it that garnered 1,200 signatures...