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Anderson added that another potential problem was the lack of contact between Yard freshmen and upperclassmen. "There should be a conscious effort to find people who are interested and willing to play some kind of role as upperclass advisers," Anderson said
...come to a peak in the spring, when you have to choose a concentration. There are about five of them with interdisciplinary programs and loads of individual attention of students, and you have to survive applications and interviews to be admitted. Then there's House selection. Some of the upperclass Houses are naturally more popular than others so somebody always gets screwed...
...create a sedating effect. All the Quad dorms have double and single rooms leading onto long corridors. This makes Radcliffe one of the few places at Harvard you'll find "typical" dorm atmosphere in contrast to the apartment building type isolationism you get from suites in the Yard or upperclass River Houses...
...said, "If they can continue it (the upperclass advising program), it would be great. He added, however, "So much contact between freshmen and upperclassmen goes on anyway...
Dern said that many freshmen "seemed excited by the thing," because "Harvard came to them." He said that many advising programs are available but none of them seeks out the freshman. He found that many of this year's upperclass advisers "were worried by the quality of advice from the official advisers...