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...fill out a short form and you get your own private mentor, an upperclassman "committed" to showing freshmen the Harvard ropes. The application blurb glowingly promises--in language reminiscent of day camp brochures--"the fun of making friends." Who doesn't need a friend freshman week? "Students Helping Students (SHS)--We are just what we sound like," read the advertisement for the organization. Well, not quite...
...them. One-third of the guides never bothered to call all year, according to a survey conducted at the end of last year. Another third of the freshmen did meet their guides, but they had "no warm feelings" connected with the experience, Arthur J. Kyriazis '80-3, chairman of SHS admitted with distinct discomfort...
...SHS will send a barrage of letters to faculty members this year to establish links with academic departments and to get professors working on the program, Kyriazis said. SHS advisors are not supposed to give official academic advice, Kyriazis added...
Kyriazis called SHS a "no-loss proposition." If freshmen get an added perspective through advice on the University from upperclassmen, it is their gain, he said...
...SHS was implemented as an organization complementary to Crimson Key, the Freshman Task Force, Room 13 and other advising services, Kyriazis said. The program is based on a "senior-sibling" program held several years ago at the Quad and on a similar plan at the University of Pennsylvania, Kyriazis says...