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Such philosopher-king/queen stature should preclude the necessity for any kind of expansive evaluation system, one would think. Yet Monday night, the Undergraduate Council (UC) voted up an initiative supporting the concurrent evaluation of Allston Burr Senior Tutors and House Masters by all upperclass students alongside the tutor evaluations that the Houses compile each year...
Inside the Annenberg, upperclass students greeted freshmen, brandishing an array of posters and distributing House t-shirts...
...restrictions indicate how contentious these rules can be. The increasingly complex restrictions seem to generate so much controversy because of a seemingly impossible reconciliation of two lofty ideals: the creation and maintenance of a definable House community through a dining hall, and the integration of first-years into upperclass life. Those who believe that the former concept is more important tend to support Houses’ dining hall restrictions, and those who believe the latter concept prevails tend to oppose them. It is difficult to deem one principle to be higher than the other, but when we empirically examine what...
...already socially isolated from the rest of the College. The quasi-exclusive nature of the House system, which is slowly intensifying as inter-House restrictions increase, will only serve to exclude first-years further. But encouraging—or merely allowing—first-years to overcrowd upperclass dining halls does little for upperclass integration when first-years arrive by the entryway. The front page of The Crimson on January 24 showed five Greenough residents sitting together in the Quincy dining hall, gabbing only among themselves as they chowed down their supper. We only need recall our own first year...
...clogging up the serving area. According to Kirshner’s e-mail, Quincyites themselves are enjoying their dining hall’s facelift—with in-house dining up five percent. But that’s nothing compared to the 229 percent surge of guests from other upperclass houses...