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...which eager minds, thirsting for general knowledge, should be turned away. Clearly, the need for a consistent policy will become more urgent as the Core grows. Upperclassmen are quick to recognize that exiling freshmen is the only sensible solution, but roughly one fourth of Harvard undergraduates are curiously blind to this crystal logic. True gamblers, these freshmen prefer to go for broke with a random lottery. Both systems have some merit, and we advocate the oft-sought happy medium--a random lottery weighted for seniority for all oversubscribed courses...
...Efficacy Committee, working with the College, which pays its operating expenses, also offers a six-day seminar in the spring and fall for minority upperclassmen...
Four out of the six campuses studied provide students with the option of subscribing to dining hall food to varying degrees. While Harvard requires students to join a 21-meal-per-week plan, Brown University, for example, permits students to pay for as few as seven, and allows upperclassmen to live on the Providence, R.I., campus without purchasing any university meals...
Dartmouth College, which is slightly more restrictive than Brown, forces its freshmen to join at least a 14-meal plan. But Dartmouth upperclassmen can purchase as few as five meals per week. MIT and the University of California at Berkeley similarly offer a selection of meal plans from which to choose. Amherst College and Stanford University, however, require an eating arrangement similar to Harvard's: students living in university housing must pay for a full week of meals...
Dartmouth students can gain $2.25 in credit, and MIT upperclassmen can select a meal plan which offers a refund for meals not taken. Dartmouth also allows students to take their regular meals at a special snack bar area with a fixed menu, an option which is growing in popularity. "The demand is increasing for that kind of eating," said Jerry Gamble, catering manager for the Dartmouth Dining Association. "I could foresee a situation where the number of people eating from a la carte could be equal to the number of people eating in the dining hall...