Word: frosh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cynical "drop-out" of the Social Studies and History and Literature Departments, I continue to wonder why Harvard forced me to choose a concentration as a naive, inexperienced frosh. Since my initial decision two years ago, I have changed majors three times and still receive the wrong concentration packets at registration...
Harvard, whether it believes it or not, can learn from the wisdom of other colleges at least in this area. Sophomores, not frosh, should choose areas of concentration. The Core could also be more representative of various, actual departmental courses. With an additional year to gain knowledge and experience, sophomores could make a better, more informed choice...
...first randomization plan included: that houses with the worst image problems would not participate; that the plan had been implemented without sufficient student consultation; that it would be ineffective in any event because too few students would be assigned randomly; that housing choice had been promised to pre-frosh and lastly, that any plan to assign only some students randomly will always be implicitly unfair...
Partial randomization offers token diversity at the expense of student choice. The sacrifice of some freshmen guinea pigs in a lily-livered attempt to pay lip service to diversity would only serve to alienate those unlucky frosh...
...flawless. Fred Frosh would never get lost again...