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Change in house assignment must take place now--on that, most informed College members agree. House stereotypes that are persistently repellent to large segments of first-year and upperclass students--athleticism, elitism or bohemianism--threaten to leave all students under-educated...
...front page story on science enrollment falling, you cite the fact that Harvard has been boosting acceptance of high school students interested in science to about 40-50 percent of the class in the past few years. Nevertheless, there are 1253 upperclassmen concentrating in sciences, 25 percent of the upperclass population. Obviously, a very large portion of these students changed their mind, and the only difference between the students who have chosen their concentrations and those entering the University, the difference that may make the decision, is a year's experience in Harvard courses...
...willing to admit right now that I don't know where I want to live next year, and I don't really care either. An upperclass house will be a blessing as long as I don't have to share a shower with 14 other women. I will be happy if I can merely get away from the mass mass-produced food at the Union...
...members surveyed 224 female upperclass students over the last three weeks and plan to distribute the results of its questionnaire in the house dining halls Friday. This number represents approximately 10 percent of the female student body, said RUS secretary Annabella C. Pitkin...
Many students, both first-year and upperclass, said there was a problem with house diversity. "I think [the statistics] show a great lack of diversity," said Teddy Moscoso '93, a Thayer Hall resident. "It really affects the way you think about the houses. You form biases about the person from the houses...