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Even though our system is a highly effective vehicle for social contact, there are clear ways we can improve it. For now, the answer lies within a reinfusion of programming within the Houses. A core of House Committees (HoCos) do a great job of providing party events, Stein Clubs, happy hours, and Harvard-Yale tailgates, but few take any sort of time to bring more structured events into the ouses. Every HoCo should create a position to work with House Masters and tutors to create a series of events in addition to the Senior Common Room events already arranged...
...failure of the Residential House system to effectively “create community” within its sphere of influence. While most are satisfied with their experience, these complaints have merit. The system currently lacks a programmatic emphasis and must be reinfused with popular programming outside the realm of Stein Clubs and parties, bringing speakers out of the lecture halls and into the Houses...
...jump on the Quad shuttle and hope for the best. Of course, the FDO, in accordance with Massachusetts law, hasn’t changed its rule about alcohol in the freshman dorms, but we find it likely that responsible, discreet freshmen will continue to pass around a stein on occasion. And should they get caught beer-handed, first-time freshmen offenders will now be asked to have a chat with their proctors, in what will be a far more constructive and less disciplinary conversation. But small social gatherings will not reinvigorate freshman social life on their own, especially...
...more to unite the freshman class if it received greater funding. Intimately connected to student life through the physical connection of the Houses and freshman dorms, HoCos and the FYSC will be more responsive to what social events students are demanding, be they huge dances or intimate Stein Clubs. Additionally, their relatively smaller budgets will disincentivize huge expenditures on financially risky events, increasing accountability. House and dorm life—the perennial subject of complaints among students—will also benefit greatly from increased funding. On balance, HoCos and the FYSC will be more flexible, responsive, and motivated than...
...it’s not just Stein Clubs and Quad parties that keep Jones from wanting to leave. She loves the house system here as well. “I visited a friend at NYU and they all live off-campus after freshman year,” Jones said...