Word: upperclassmen
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While the delegation of freshman to one living area seems the obvious corollary to the three year House sytem for upperclassmen, some freshmen were mixed in with upperclassmen in the Redcliffe Quad houses as recently...
...define the freshman your he a transition year from school to university, as we do with the the three-year concentration system, why not go into the business of making the transition through, with a system of freshmen advisers rather than hoping that masters and upperclassmen can do a decent job? asks Moses...
Critics of the arrangement point out that freshmen are deprived of contact with upperclassmen and faculty members who are masters, and therefore miss a major part of the University...
Brown University freshmen may live in dorms with upperclassmen, or in special freshmen dorms proctored by upperclassmen. "Students can relate better to those who are closer in age to them," says housing official Meredith Eddy of Brown's residential adviser system. She adds that Brown does not have the option of allowing graduate students to serve as residential advisers because those rooms set aside for advisers are needed to house undergraduates...
...residential college seems an attempt to compromise between the two ideals. At Harvard, debate about the freshmen housing lottery perennially raises the option of abandoning the lottery and assigning freshmen to a House in their first year. While this seems to give the best of both worlds--contact with upperclassmen as well as a specialized advising system--the College shuns it because it eliminates choice...