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...legendary Harvard classics professor and former Lowell House master, while his wife would serve tea out of a silver teapot. Naddaff’s freshman seminar brought her into the upperclassman House at a time when women still lived in the Radcliffe Quadrangle.Today, over 30 years later, the small-group experience of a freshman seminar still stands in stark contrast to first-year schedules otherwise inundated with large introductory lecture courses in a crowded Sanders Theatre or the Science Center.Now the director of the Freshman Seminar Program and Mather House master, Nadaff says her firsthand experience as a student...
...being “set to motivating music”—appeared to be a testament to the efforts of the Freshman Dean’s Office, which has rolled out a slightly expanded program of orientation events for freshmen that includes more emphasis on academic advising, small-group recreation, and exercise. “There’s been quite a bit of revamping since last year,” said Freshmen Dean’s Office administrator Gretchen Gringo, pointing to the work of a new Opening Days Committee that helped shoulder the work of processing...
...concerned with sexual assault as an undergraduate at the University of Virginia.Braxton said the experience was “transformative,” providing him with an open forum for issues that he said are “not often socially acceptable” for males to discuss.Through weekly small-group discussions and partnerships with other campus groups, HMAR is trying to spread awareness at Harvard that the dialogue on sexual assault affects everyone—regardless of gender.“It’s important to realize that almost everybody has some connection to sexual assault on this...
...yesterday that Park “has been working to revitalize the Korean political scene, to overcome regional differences both north and south as well as cross-regional within the [Republic of Korea].” McCann, who is the Korea Foundation professor of Korean literature, also moderated a small-group discussion of undergraduates and graduate students yesterday afternoon with Park At that session, Park said that “the warming-up period is over—it’s time to get serious...
...vote. It would be a sin not to." The Family Research Council has been e-mailing "No Time to Be Complacent" bulletins and held a Liberty Sunday turnout rally at the base of Boston's Beacon Hill that was televised to hundreds of church-fellowship halls, evening services and small-group meetings. These leaders have calculated that remaining aloof would just diminish their power. "You only gain clout by activity," says Michael Farris, chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association. His group plans to send hundreds of teenagers who are home schooled to 10 states in the election...