“Freshmen are overwhelmed as it is, and there is not enough there for them,” he says. “It’s a lot easier when you’re older, because people join organizations and find their groups that way. But that fractures the social scene so much.”
He laments that HahvahdPahties.com hasn’t had a more widespread impact in its first year.
“We target freshmen,” Corker says, explaining that older students had less use for its services.
Luckily, in Master Naddaff’s words, “We should judge the success of a group as much by what they’ve done as by what they’ve lead to.”
Corker, she asserts, has left a “great legacy.” And since Hahvahdparties.com has groomed about 20 “pledges” over the last year, chances are good that the social scene will become even more state-schoolesque next year.
—Staff writer Eugenia B. Schraa can be reached at schraa@fas.harvard.edu.