Word: interclass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Interclass contact is further reduced by the changes in weekend dining brought on by the bitching of last year's freshmen. Once upon a time freshmen ate at all the Houses in the course of a year. Then they ate at three only, but for longer periods of time at each. Now freshmen don't ever have to leave the comfort of the Union. When they do, they go in convoys with a proctor riding shotgun. To pay for keeping the Union open weekends, all but four Houses have abandoned hot breakfasts. Greatly upset at the prospect of going...
...DECREASING interclass contact is an unhealthy development. First-hand observation of freshmen becomes impossible, so upperclassmen base their views of freshmen on stereotype and rumor. Are freshmen competitive, grade-hungry overachievers, or are they idyllic, innocent waifs who are "testing their wings"? No one can say for sure...