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When I tried at the end of my first year to become a volunteer for Transfer Links, I had to call several different people just to find out how to join. I found out later that it is the coordinator's job to contact volunteers, but the University had not found a coordinator...
...Since Transfer Links is run completely by students, there are a number of problems with it. First, there is no continuity from one year to the next. No one in the Administration has ever made up a list of things that must be done every year. Each fall, Transfer Links must start from scratch...
There are a lot of transfers who would like to help, but they don't because they do not want to spend their summers fighting with Harvard's Administration. This year, especially, there were many problems with the program. The Transfer Links coordinator was told in May that there would be housing provided for 13 volunteers. But in the middle of the summer, the Administration cancelled all housing. Dean of Students Archie Epps III explained that transfer students would only be on campus for five days without Transfer Links volunteers, and that the program would make do with students...
...effects of this change were obvious. While 15 to 20 students per year normally volunteer for Transfer Links, this year only three showed up for the first meeting...
Further, since upperclassmen had fewer days to move into the Houses than in previous years, there was little time to organize Transfer Links into a coherent orientation program...