Word: startingly
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...trouble for many students seems to start freshman year, when advising is narrowed to focus exclusively on every up and down of the freshman year experience. Evangeline Morphos, a senior adviser for several years in the Yard, says the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) emphasizes too much "how to get through freshman year, rather than helping students to look at college as a four-year plan." Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen, disagrees that the freshman advising system places too much emphasis on counseling on personal problems. He points out that proctors aren't the only source of advice...
Proctors, Morphos says, are not qualified to serve as academic advisers. But about 75 per cent of freshmen are assigned to their proctor as their academic adviser, isolating them from seeking faculty advice from the start. Students "need to be fired up about academics here," Morphos says, but the FDO's approach "too often is to offer extracurricular options as an alternative to connecting with the University...
...school has had three general faculty meetings to discuss the thrust of the new department. "The object was to get the issues out before us so the faculty could think about them over the summer," McCue says, adding that he will form a committee next fall to start working out the details of the new program. Carl F. Steinitz, professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, concurs: "Neither the structure or the content (of the program) will be settled until next fall...
...authored a new book, "Cholesterol, Children, and Heart Disease: An Analysis of Alternatives," to be published in July. He argues that too much time and money is spent on finding out who already has a high cholesterol level, and not enough on lowering cholesterol levels before the problems start...
...Powers said the action was taken at the end of the school calendar to facilitate integration of the displaced employees into other areas for the start of the next academic year...