Word: upperclassmen
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...also often characterized by an increased predilection toward most things unexpected, not simply abandoning books for booze, but really finding unusual diversions and activities. Sometimes these two pursuits are combined into masterful social experiments: look at the Last Senior Standing competition, or the wine seminars held throughout the upperclassmen Houses in the spring...
...freshmen venture to Pennypacker Hall unless they live there. Fewer upperclassmen venture to the dorm without questionable motives...
...dormitories, so that freshmen could imaginably knock on someone’s dorm outside their entryway when they need help the night before Ec 10 problem sets are due; within entryways, so that the little crises that define the freshman experience can be dealt with by proctors and present upperclassmen before they become major issues; and within peer advising groups, so that first-years can benefit from the agglomeration of their peers’ questions and experiences...
...ever-greater numbers of faculty to work as first-year advisers continue. At a college where the remoteness of faculty is a common complaint, creating opportunities for student-faculty contact into a new advising program stands to make a great contribution to the lives of both freshmen and the upperclassmen who advise them...
...addition to forging links among freshmen with common interests, the new program will also create a community of upperclassmen with a shared concern for the welfare of first-years, and a strong network of resources to deal informally with their own advising issues. Fellows would not only comprise a safety net for freshmen—they would have one of their...