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...timing of these sentiments was also distressing: after less than a week in Cambridge, newcomers were first asked to imagine hostile upperclassmen and then asked to avoid those upperclassmen, encouraging an artificial chasm in the student body. This attempt at ostracism is unbefitting a Harvard student, a student of any institution, and most generally, a human being. Moreover, The Crimson Staff assumed a universal resentment of the freshmen, which is false...
Having weathered a few years at Harvard, though, we can offer the obviously eager freshmen an important lesson: There are not that many friendly people at Harvard, and the fact that your facebook friends number close to 1,000 does not negate this. We would be lying if we upperclassmen denied feeling a twinge of envy towards freshmen, here not even a full week, boasting twice the number of "friends" as we have. But it's really not much of an accomplishment. The only time were invariably friendly at Harvard is on our resumes and our facebook profiles. The only...
...Some upperclassmen just aren't as welcoming as we are. They've responded to 2009's legions of facebook whores with groups like the vicious "Holy shit the class of 2009 should perform a David Koresh-style mass suicide," complete with a Goya painting of Saturn devouring his young. A quote from the group warns first-years that prefects may "poison [their] study break fare with arsenic or tricky laxatives." We're just trying to get all of them quadded...
...Upperclassmen spent a week sailing at Falmouth before coming to Cambridge for preseason, sailing without the distraction of academics. The extra preparation has perhaps helped, as the Crimson delivered a series of respectable finishes...
Nelson will step into a role similar to the one previously held by Thomas A. Dingman ’67, who took over as Dean of Freshmen this July. As an associate dean of the College, Dingman had oversight of upperclassmen residential life and reported to the deputy dean of the College...