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Stephens, now in the first term of his senior year after having interrupted his studies for a four-and-a-half year period, is the only current Harvard undergraduate who took part in the April 1972 takeover of Massachusetts Hall. The takeover by the 34 black students was the culmination of months of protest against Harvard's $13 million holding in the Gulf Oil Corporation, then a leading prop of the Portuguese colonial regime in Angola...
Even in the social science departments, for which a thesis is almost invariably required for departmental honors, many students never begin a thesis. Others drop them at some point during their senior year. Of about 125 seniors in Government each year, fox example, 90 or so start work on a thesis, and about 20 never complete them, according to Nancy L. Rosenblum '69, head tutor in the Government Department...
Rosenblum says that writing her senior thesis, on Hegel, was "a great experience."Yet she would only advise a student to write a senior thesis "if you have something in mind, something you want to explore," or "if the process is appealing"--that is, if the student enjoys researching and writing long papers. But someone who does not fit into either of those categories, she says, "would be well advised not to write a thesis...
...does not necessarily help you get into graduate school. Admissions officers at the Law School and Business School said last week they agree. N. June Thompson, assistant director of admissions at the Law School, says she has "no feeling either way" about whether an applicant should be writing a senior thesis--particularly because acceptance notices are sent out well before the theses are written...
...then, spend much of one's senior year in college working on one long paper, if you can graduate with honors without it, and you do not need it for graduate school...