Word: upperclass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eternal significance has never been the forte of collegiate nostalgia, and 1965 will find little in its freshman year that altered the world--or even the College. The HSA Linen Depot System was the Class' first controversy, but '65 remained oblivious to sophisticated CRIMSON and upperclass attempts to stir discontent. They trekked to their depots, found their packages properly "full of sheets," and went off happily...
Already, he pointed out, the children of middle- or upperclass parents can escape the draft by going to college, while those from lower classes cannot afford a deferment...
...League Freshman Presidents' council recommended Saturday that collage administrators and deans not consider freshmen preferences in making assignments to upperclass residence houses. The Council is "alarmed at the needles time and worry involved in choosing house," according to William G. Sinkford'67, chairman of the Harvard freshmen Council and the Harvard representative to the intercollegiate group. "We suggest that students be allowed to state housing preference if they want, but all maters and deans not be bound to these choices in any way," he said. Freshman are largely ignored both by faculty and student groups considering policy decisions," Sinkford added...
Still, Von Stade objects to any really radical change, and rejects Yale's current system. There all freshmen are affiliated with one of the upperclass colleges (New Haven's counterpart of the House). "The logical extension of the Yale system is that freshman would eventually live in the Colleges," he says...
...students be allowed (a) to use their awards for pre-college work as the equivalents of nondesignated depart- mental courses in meeting the requirements and (b) to present petitions for individual programs taking their special preparations into account. The relation to the General Education requirements of Freshman (and possible upperclass) Seminars and of Independent Study outside the area of concentration needs further study...