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...first and biggest step toward improving advising at the College requires assigning incoming freshmen to upperclass houses before they arrive at Harvard and giving each freshman entryway a House affiliation. When the 2004 Curricular Review report recommended such a change to Harvard’s housing policy, it presumed that the benefits to advising from pre-assignment would consist of improved freshman access to the House tutor system—a wrong-headed argument if ever there was one. Critics rightly argued that House advisors are stretched thin across this campus and that the added load would fill the tutor...
...professor just reads from a script in lecture. Moreover, first-year students should be assigned an advisor in a broad field like social sciences, sciences, or humanities. When they enter the College, freshmen would indicate which general area they are interested in so that they would be assigned an upperclass advisor with a greater familiarity with concentrations and classes in that area. Such a system would help first-years better explore their chosen fields and would allow for a more productive freshmen year. For the new program to be successful, the College must let peer academic advisors give freshmen honest...
...average, upperclass students benefit 30,000 times each year from the distribution of free Lifestyles condoms, while freshmen continue to suffer through cold and awkward trips to CVS at 2 a.m. Harvard freshmen—stereotypically not the most socially nimble and suave pack—should not be burdened with the additional obstacle of locating contraception at the off-chance of sexual success while their older peers receive condoms in laundry rooms. In addition, timid freshmen’s unfettered access to condoms will eliminate the awkward and potentially prohibitive face-to-face interactions, which are often requisite...
...hosting suite, each room was awarded $100. But this changed in October when UC members Alexandra M. Gutierrez ’08 and Jia “Jane” Fang ’08 sponsored a bill overhauling the process. The bill reduced the number of upperclass parties funded weekly by the UC from 13 to 10, and it created a list of 14 “super party suites.” This list includes suites that have long been recognized by the student body as party zones, including the Ten Man in Currier and the Pfoho Belltower...
Despite the fact that condoms are already available in several parts of the Yard, in upperclass houses, and at University Health Services (UHS)—not to mention at CVS—proponents of this plan insist that it is necessary to supply condoms in freshman dorms for that “heat-of-the-moment” lay in the hay. We disagree with this view that sex, especially between 17- and 18-year-olds who barely know each other and may be having their first sexual experience, should be the result of a spontaneous, inebriated decision...