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...pass/fail first semester for freshmen (and the option to switch from pass/fail to graded courses before reading period for the rest of us). To promote student health and wellness, they believe there should be staggered dining hall hours and gyms in the Yard. To improve campus community, they advocate reducing room and equipment costs for student groups, investing in House study spaces, expanding collaborative student group and House service efforts, and student-driven selection of the Campus Life Fellow...
...student dinners, thesis workshops, and research opportunities—hopes to engage students in Europoean studies throughout their college careers, according to the center’s executive director, Patricia H. Craig. “We are helping students make sense of what they are learning, not only within the general context of their intellectual development, but also in terms of their future paths in life,” said Craig, who added that the initiative’s focus on internationalization furthers the University trend of encouraging experience abroad. The center was previously more focused on graduate student research...
McLoughlin said he envisioned a very student-driven space with music constantly playing in the background. Ideally, he said, student employees would bring their own iPod mixes and stick them in a dock already there...
...additional student perspectives. According to the legislation, a “working relationship” will exist between the programming board and the UC “whenever necessary.” The legislation also anticipates that the Office of Student Activities and the Campus Life Fellow will provide logistical support to the new board. “I think the Campus Life Fellow will take on the responsibility of being a support figure and advisor for this student programming board,” Haan said. “The Office of Student Activities will assist this student-driven programming...
...free activities designed to give freshmen something fun to do. In December 2003, the prefect program hosted “Harvard Idol,” which attracted more than 500 sober freshmen at midnight on three consecutive Saturdays. These aspects of the program were successful precisely because they were student-driven. The program was not beholden to the bulging bureaucracy of University Hall. Returning prefects, not College administrators, selected and supported new prefects as peer mentors; engaged students, not detached adults, attempted to create some semblance of a social life in the Yard. To many freshmen, life on the Yard...