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...guess at this point in our lives we're supposed to make decisions on our own," says Michael L. Blomquist '03, a prospective Environmental Science and Public Policy concentrator. "When I needed advice on courses I asked upperclassmen or teammates who I felt could give better advice and were more similar to me than my adviser. I know of one of my friends who has a non-resident adviser who has nothing to do with academia, which I find kind of amusing...
...Surprisingly, "dormcest" has yet to find its way to the FDO's guide to "The First Undergraduate Year at Harvard." Nonetheless, upperclassmen jump at the opportunity to caution weary first-years of its dangers. Roopal B. Patel '03 recalls her First-Year Urban Program experience. "The very first day of FUP, we engaged in some ice-breaking activities in small groups. One of the FUP leaders, Greg Feldman, among the extensive wisdom he passed along, explained the hazards of dormcest. He summed it up in one simple rule: 'you must cross two exit signs before you hook up with somebody...
...some say over their investment, over whom their child can live with. As a compromise, the school could allow the majority payer of each student's tuition decide whether the student may live in coed housing or not. First years shouldn't be randomly placed in coed dorms, but upperclassmen should have the right to live with whomever they want, male or female. We live in a pluralistic society, and the university is in the business of educating, not moralizing. To impose some moral criteria on housing that is neither consistent nor universally held is impractical at best and immoral...
Hurricane Floyd is probably still fresh in our memories. For first-years it meant cancelled "Through the Gates" orientation excursions, for Quadlings there was yet another reason to complain about the shuttle schedule, and for some upperclassmen the Registrar's office had to waive their late registration fees because of Logan's shutdown...
...college community is dependent on intellectual cross-fertilization. The politicking of social groups and the insularity that most upperclassmen have comfortably settled into is as much a factor of major as it is a factor of blocking groups and residence. The real solidarity of attitudes, the taking-for-granted, the place where questions cease to be asked cannot be entirely divorced from the academic context...