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...program should instead just present the facts straight. Freshmen aren’t stupid. We don’t need to hear simplistic modern-day fairytales-gone-wrong before we can make decisions about our own health...
...understand that having freshmen debriefed on the dangers of drinking before they arrive on campus must seem appealing. Yet I can’t imagine the administration really wants to impose this kind of frustration. Far from educating us naïve first-years on the perils of alcohol, it merely annoys the hell out of us. It was not uncommon for Alcohol Edu to time out several times in one section (approximately 15 minutes work), as happened to me on several occasions...
...even more frustrating given that the College already has other, better alcohol education programs. FRED gives information without obfuscating the truth. Its lecturers explain what freshmen need to know by highlighting the risks of drinking and, yet, recognizing that many will drink, describing how best to drink responsibly. An hour’s lecture one night might seem inconvenient, but it’s immeasurably better than the pain of Alcohol...
...Harvard’s inaugural advising week wraps up, concentration-hopping freshmen may have noticed a trend among departments starving for concentrators (and attention). In fact, with East Asian Studies doling out sushi, Computer Sciences offering ice cream, and various concentrations stuffing prospects with stuffed-crust pizza, it’s pretty obvious that intellectual curiosity wasn’t the only thing these desperate departments were catering to. Given the fixation with food, FM’s nutrition experts created a concentration-guide pyramid to help students make healthy choices. Chosen sparingly—Endangered concentrations (where fats, oils...
...showed up at Harvard and kind of did FIP anyway. I wanted to integrate myself with the international community,” Richards says. Now in her role as vice president, she will coordinate the Society’s FIP efforts and help international freshmen integrate themselves as she once did. While much of the program will focus on big issues like bank accounts and cell phones, Richards will also have to address “the little things...that make it hard for internationals to adjust.” She relates the story of a FIPper who had trouble...