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Anti-Semitic leaflets appeared in publicly-accessible locations outside at least one upperclass House and several Yard dorms yesterday, prompting startled undergraduates to tear down the fliers...
...Sunday were welcomed back from spring break not by the smiling face of the card-checker and the enticing aroma of vegetable lasagna, but by the cold, hard bars of a closed metal gate. In a scene that was echoed at Eliot House, which was one of the few upperclass dining halls open the night before College classes resumed, chaos reigned in the servery and in the seating area as students scrambled to get their hands on food and then chairs before either ran out. Apparently, no one had told the chefs at Quincy, Eliot, Pforzheimer, Currier, and Annenberg that...
...named for fear of being “outed,” came anyway. He hoped for the best of his undergraduate experience, but as he had feared, it didn’t meet his expectations.After unofficial living accommodations were made for him in one of the upperclass Houses, he decided to move off-campus and join an unknown number of transgendered students who remain virtually invisible to students.All of his transgendered friends have experienced at least verbal abuse because of their gender identities. But it’s not the harsh words that get to him. It?...
...bodies and souls. There are still vestiges of this mentality left. The College has, for instance, decided that freshmen need more rules than upperclassmen, and that is why the freshman proctor is more an enforcer than an advisor. Randomization itself was a heavy-handed, top-down decision to alter upperclass housing that had nothing to do with education by books per se; it was a decision about which groups ranging from the UC to this newspaper’s editorial board bitterly complained, although it is now heralded as visionary. And Sex Signals and the mandatory diversity training freshmen endure...
...offer formal academic guidance to freshmen, to sign their study cards, and so on. There’s no question that progress must be made here as well, but a successful advising relationship with a faculty member would complement the far more important relationship between freshmen and their upperclass advisors and big siblings...