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...Horner report on advising and counseling pinpointed this lack of coordination between freshmen and upperclass years as one of Harvard's major advising trouble spots. The report states, "It became clear that the change in student initiative and behavior required by the shift to advising done within an academic department or framework and by the tutorial staff in the Houses is, for many students a source of considerable confusion, frustration, and misunderstanding at the beginning of a very important and difficult year...
Within their first few months as plebes, West Point was engulfed in the worst cheating scandal in its 178-year history. As first-year students, the women were ineligible for the upperclass Electrical Engineering 304 course that produced the shared exam answers and the scandal. But last year their presence caused a lesser scandal-that one involving dating cadets and outlawed hazing practices-that put the Academy on the front pages of the newspapers again. To an outsider the female attrition rate in the Class of '80, a shade under 50%, seems terribly high. But the Academy points...
...organized service providing packaged advice--people are trained, evaluated and fired," Moses says. Beyond the task force, though, there is no formal upperclass advising. Moses disliked Students Helping Students--an organization formed last year matching upperclassmen and freshmen according to interest--because of its "initial grandiosity." But Porter sees a need for as many sources of advice as possible: "Anything more is good...
Three Harvard students have published a freshman guide to upperclass housing to help freshman choose Houses in the lottery later this month...
Neer said the University will house the fifty additional freshmen who are living in the Yard this year through increased crowding of suites in the upperclass houses...