Word: upperclassmen
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Many houses conduct rooming lotteries this way, and upperclassmen choose their rooms based on availability, rather than unreliable information or guessing games. But replicating this system on a College-wide scale would be too long and costly. Each house's rooming lottery lasts well into the night. Imagine what would happen with 12 times as many people involved...
...principle, the prefect program is a good idea. Designed to give freshmen contact with undergraduates who have had some experience in the Harvard jungle, the program aims to help mitigate the consequences of housing freshmen apart from more experienced upperclassmen...
Next week, each rooming group will be given its lottery number. Then the fun really begins. Countless freshmen will attend countless ice-cream bashes and Masters' Open Houses and spend hours talking to upperclassmen in order to determine whether the "character" of each house is right for them...
...becomes necessary to house studentsoutside the environs of Winthrop proper,upperclassmen will be offered the opportunity tomove into alternative housing before sophomoresare assigned to live...
...those compulsives are neither long-haired hippies nor pencil-thin nerds, as stereotypes might have. Every evening at Tommy's upperclassmen in tuxes share the machines with construction workers and skateboard punks. "The people who play the games come from a really wide socio-economic and age background." says Nathaniel A. Wice '89. "But they're pretty much male...