Word: upperclassmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...results of GSAS's efforts, however, will be diminished if minority undergraduates continue to feel there is no permanent place for them higher in the ivory tower. Last spring GSAS began a letter-writing campaign to encourage Harvard minority undergraduates to consider careers in academia. But for many upperclassmen whose post-graduation plans already had been formulated, the letter came too late...
COURSE selection, reading period and the housing lottery are just a few of the things that make Harvard a confusing place. Yardlings, who've never experienced the necessary and unnecessary silliness before, need the kind of advice upperclassmen can provide...
Since there aren't many opportunities for them to meet upperclassmen in the Yard, the University could ease matters by making upperclassmen part of the freshman advising system...
...three-year-old prefect program, in which upperclassmen are assigned to visit freshmen entryways, represents one attempt Harvard has made to ease the transition for newcomers into College life. The prefect program, however, is beset with problems. A battery of new reforms will make things a bit better for the Class of '91 than they used to be, but the reforms don't address the program's essential flaw...
...University isn't committed to making sophomores, juniors and seniors real parts of its advising system, then it at least shouldn't reduce upperclassmen to playing the role of official--and gagged--friend. Harvard can choose advisors; let freshmen choose their friends...