Word: transfering
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...When transfers switch houses shortly after arriving at Dudley, it demoralizes the house tutoring staff and hampers the house's ability to provide social services such as intramural teams and dramatic events, Arthur Loeb says. The College and the Dudley administration have therefore begun looking for ways to make the house more attractive to transfer students...
After long negotiations, the College this fall opened the Lehman Hall dining room for dinner and began subsidizing off-campus housing in nearby Harvard-owned buildings. While these innovations have mitigated some transfer students' complaints, they have also altered the nature of the house, say the Loebs. "Annex housing makes us a half-residential house," Arthur Loeb says...
...current situation leaves the Loebs to conclude that Dudley House will continue to serve as a processing center for transfer students, of whom approximately half may leave every semester. At the same time, they are left to cope with students in annex housing, some of whom keep Dudley affiliation while their roommates go elsewhere. And although admistrators, house officials, and other house masters agree that Dudley House is uniquely able to provide a high level of services for both transfer students and voluntary nonresidents, the Loebs say the strain is too great...
...article on Dudley House and transfer students in your February 25 issue continues your trend of bringing to attention the unique difficulties transfer students face at Harvard. Dave Sugrue eloquently describes the life of a transfer student, a situation I am very familiar with, having myself transferred here in the fall of '86. Though the situation of transfer students has vastly improved in the past year, major problems still exist for them...
...housing issue is paramount among the many problems transfers face. Though all transfer students are offered housing through the affiliated housing policy, much of the housing is located in distant and isolated areas such as Peabody Terrace and Botanical Gardens. As David indicated in his article, these are the "dull edges of the Harvard Community...