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...Sorry, it’s freshman night only, I can’t let you in.” And thus the bouncer filtered out any preying upperclassmen from the First Chance Dance—or “last chance dance,” as one freshman deemed it, only too appropriately. Freshmen awkwardly looking for someone to sit with were replaced by freshmen awkwardly looking for dance partners, groups of freshmen girls dancing in protective entryway clusters, and overly enthusiastic males attempting to infiltrate these clusters. In front of the dancers were scattered Crimson Key Society members, recognizable...
...classes (and choosing a curriculum) is a trauma. Although we stood behind the original Gen Ed program as envisioned by its creators, the entire process has become perverted by the College’s inadequate response to meeting students’ academic needs during the interim. The result: beleaguered upperclassmen with nowhere to turn to fulfill Core requirements and equally frustrated freshmen who are forced to choose between a meager selection of Gen Ed courses and the defunct Core. No student at any point in his or her academic career is immune to this gross deficiency as the College struggles...
...spot on the All-Regional team for her top-25 finish. Classmate Jamie Olson led the Crimson runners at Heps with her 18:03.40 finish, placing 13th overall.In the indoor and outdoor track seasons, the men and women continued the trend set in the fall, offering consistency from the upperclassmen and breakout performances from the first-timers.Junior Becky Christensen continued to dominate the high jump, winning both the indoor and outdoor Heptagonals by clearing 1.79 meters in each meet. Perhaps more impressive was Christensen’s outright win of the Penn Relays, the largest track and field competition...
...similar well-thought-out introductions to sociology, anthropology and psychology should join Soc Anal 10. The Humanities Core should incorporate existing surveys of fine arts, of various cultural histories and literatures, of Shakespeare, and of philosophy. The sciences should expand on a sensible modification recently made public, which allows upperclassmen to count certain introductory science courses, such as Physics 12 and Chem 5a for the Core—presumably to ease the lot of premeds, until now the most hapless victims of Core rigidity. There is no need to eliminate the many fine courses already established which approach these disciplines...
With respect to residential, extracurricular, and social life, students largely cite the absence of common spaces, interactions with upperclassmen, and high stress levels as problematic...