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They are first-years and their world is the Yard. If on a night you bisect the Yard, you can feel their emotional inquisitiveness, their gnawing celibacy, their sense of discovery. Upperclass students remember (here the music comes up and the screen goes wavy) that long-lost time when academic competition was in abeyance and you watched a dawn from the Weld Observatory after a delirious all-night discussion of “the pros and cons of long-distance relationships...
When the third-year coach took over the Harvard hockey program in 1999, he inherited two top-flight, upperclass goaltenders. The first, J.R. Prestifilippo ’00, was a four-year starter who finished his career second on Harvard’s all-time saves list. The second, Olivar Jonas ’01, turned in one of the best single seasons in Harvard history last year, winning the Ken Dryden Award as the ECAC’s best netminder in the process...
...Chasing upperclass parties—38 percent: We’d convene after dinner and construct a game plan: there’s a party in Mather, but I’m not sure which room it’s in. There might be something going on in either Adams D or Eliot H. Ahhh, the days when a neon sign taped to my forehead blinking “freshman, freshman” couldn’t have been more obvious than my 23-to-a-herd traveling habits or 9:45 arrival time...
This fall, however, HUDS is hoping for at minimum “20 percent participation in each population” of upperclass House and first-year dorms, she said...
Being an R.A. would not be an easy job; upperclass students have many other time commitments and responsibilities. But with the proper incentives, many more qualified upperclass students would apply to act as a live-in resource for first-years than could be accepted. For some who live in the more distant Houses, the idea of a room in the middle of campus would be enticing enough. Cutting or waiving room fees for R.A.’s would not only draw many applicants, it would also alleviate some of the space crunch in the Houses. Programs like the First...