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...awards party fund grants each week after evaluating submission forms from upperclassmen. Upperclassmen are awarded these grants provided their parties meet certain conditions—such as providing food, serving non-alcoholic beverages, and publicizing the event to a “significant number of undergraduates,” according to the UC website. The parties must also be unaffiliated with any student groups, final clubs, or fraternities...
...think it’s really important that we finally address what was an obvious inequality between freshmen and upperclassmen,” he said...
...about the average Harvard freshman year that makes it Harvard-specific: much of the learning could have taken place in an environment far less particular (and particularly less expensive). The difficulty of making good first-year academic decisions is compounded by the fact that freshmen are separated from upperclassmen, the only people who might be able to give them an insight into the complex Harvard College experience. Instead, their advisors are usually residential proctors, who, unless they themselves were undergraduates at Harvard, have only a foggy idea of the challenges facing freshmen. As it stands, freshmen give each other...
...their House masters on a case-by-case basis. It also reported that 91 percent of the Harvard undergraduates surveyed were in favor allowing coed rooming at the College.Other schools, including Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania, have taken a more liberal approach towards mixed-sex housing. At Penn, upperclassmen may apply for coed rooming, according to the school’s Housing and Conference Services website. At Columbia University, some residential buildings allow for coed suites. Wesleyan, Swarthmore, Brandeis, Tufts, and New York University also support coed arrangements.The future seems promising for Harvard roommate combinations of all types. Associate...
...grade and vetted them for accuracy. But while students restlessly await their grades, freshman advisers will have access to their advisees’ grades immediately after they are uploaded, according to an e-mail from the Registrar obtained by The Crimson. The Crimson was not able to confirm if upperclassmen advisors were also granted the same advance access. Freshman advisors were asked not to disclose grades to their students until they are officially released. The e-mail said the advisers should “refrain from sharing grade information with [their] advisees until final grades have been confirmed and released...