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Three days after a letter announcing the plan appeared in upperclass registration packets, Fox said there has been substantial response, although he didn't know how many students have requested meal invitations...
...dreams of this year's Harvard women's field hockey squad may kings as much on the performance of the freshman as on the talent, experience and determination of the upperclass-laden squad...
Many other schools operate on this principle. "It's our philosophy that it is good as a freshman to have upperclass friends," says Paula Carleton, director of undergraduate housing at Princeton, which incorporated this belief into its new residential college system. That system, which began to be passed in several years ago, requires all freshmen and sophomores to live in a residential college with about 30 juniors and seniors acting as residential advisers...
Yale's system of placing freshmen in their own giving area but assigning them to an upperclass residential college seems an attempt to compromise between the two ideals. At Harvard, debate about the freshmen housing lottery perennially raises the option of abandoning the lottery and assigning freshmen to a House in their first year. While this seems to give the best of both worlds--contact with upperclassmen as well as a specialized advising system--the College shuns it because it eliminates choice...
...Upperclass advising Alison Harrington '86 Trevor Sutton...