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...Princeton system, now in its first year of full operation, includes five residential colleges, each with its own support network of advisors. Unlike the Harvard Houses, Princeton's colleges house only freshmen and sophomores with a few upperclassmen advisers. While they borrowed the practice of assigning freshmen to a house from Yale, many of the other aspects of the Princeton system were modeled after Harvard, Katz says...
...points of the Council's proposed "solution" is to have "upperclassmen...attend all dorm proctor meetings to answer freshmen's questions." The advice and experience of upperclassmen are valuable resources for freshmen, but there is not reason to think that undergraduates can give better advice about any concentration except their own. The advising system here is supposed to foster independent thinking, encouraged by concerned guidance. The College hires older people as proctors and advisers for a reason: their experience makes them better qualified to be a student's first source of counsel...
...suggestions included asking the administration to publish a pamphlet about the Ad Board, which the council itself did this year, downplaying the emphasis of senior tutors as the only student advocates on the Board, and integrating the discussion of freshman academic and disciplinary violations with that of upperclassmen. Currently, the Ad Board holds special meetings to discuss problems relating to freshman...
Although having separate calendars is better than none at all, Moses' distinctions diminish participation in minority groups to the status of any other extracurricular activity. Placing speeches by well-known minorities who do not often come to Harvard, academic advising by upperclassmen, cultural presentations, and panel discussions on race and ethnicity in American society--all part of last year's student-organized Freshman Week events--alongside swim team tryouts and the showing of Love Story, the FDO implies they are equally valuable. He has denied all freshmen the chance to learn of the broad-ranging role played by such minority...
...Dartmouth also reported that a number of students and faculty members said they had seen upperclassmen wearing 87 shirts who helped carry the banner...