Word: upperclassman
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...Harvard senior who only associates Robespierre with a popular rock band on campus is hardly an educated individual, and an upperclassman who can't integrate a function is hardly differentiable from a sophisticated high school graduate. This inconsistency between the expectations of a Harvard student and reality stems from an insufficient advising system and a Core Curriculum which does not make enough demands on students...
With 570 members on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, it does not seem unreasonable to require each of them to spend one hour a week advising an upperclassman. With 550 of the faculty members participating, non-freshman would meet with a designated faculty member four times per year. This advisor would then submit a brief summary of every meeting...
...upperclassmen were dating their freshman advisees, and the Freshman Dean's Office quietly reassigned one upperclassman to a different prefect unit and asked another to resign...
...ROMANTIC INCIDENTS involving the new freshman prefect program have occurred this fall. In one, the upperclassman assigned to a group of freshmen as an advisor was not present at the only orientation session for prefects, held at 7:30 a.m. on the first Saturday of Freshmen Week. He was reassigned to another group after the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) learned of the affair. In the other, the upperclassman voluntarily resigned, also after the FDO learned of his involvement. These two incidents, while not particularly damaging to the concept underlying the program, do draw attention to flaws in both...
However, one upperclassman was not as lucky. "One of my roommates was really nice, but she could go into a room I had just cleaned and in ten minutes it was demolished...