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...Annenberg to celebrate or commiserate with their future Housemates. But for freshmen who end up “floating” in the lottery, the trip to the ’Berg is a solitary one. Though floating seems to be universally dreaded, FM tracked down several contented upperclassmen who flew solo. Tom E. Osborne ’08 went stag last year to avoid blocking drama. “In the grand scheme of things, blocking didn’t seem that important. I didn’t have strong feelings about who I lived with, so I didn?...
...Last December, Gross announced plans to hire a dean of advising, tapping Monique Rinere from Princeton to fill the new position. Arriving on campus on Feb. 27, Rinere made waves her sixth day on the job when she said that the Prefect Program—which matches upperclassmen with freshman entryways—would be “morphed” into a peer-advising group of upperclassmen...
...weighting the responses by class year changed the results by just a fifth of a percentage point, as upperclassmen were slightly more negative toward their professors than freshmen were...
...ensure the well being of their shared charges. But unlike the Prefect Program, this big sibling would serve as a conduit for freshmen to the House they in which they would live after their freshman year. Brunches, for example, would take place in their House dining hall, and other upperclassmen from the House would be drawn upon as complementary resources. Perhaps most importantly, House affiliation would mean a built in mechanism for transforming the prefect-prefectee relationship into a long-term one; big siblings should be drawn from the sophomore and junior classes so that when freshmen move into their...
Earlier this week, Associate Dean of Advising Programs Monique Rinere announced the the creation of a Student Advisory Board (SAB) to advise the College on the best structure for freshman advising from upperclassmen. When the current executive board of the Prefect Program voiced concerns over the program’s future, University Hall’s statement was quickly revised to emphasize that the best elements of the Prefect Program will be kept. While we were not particularly impressed with the confusing manner in which University Hall announced the SAB, we believe that changes to freshman advising are warranted.We strongly...