.* sucks. Don't use it unless you have to. Better would be to do something like: 
my @colNames = qw(name status class major po phone advisor email);
while (<>)
{
    chomp;
    my %hash;
    @hash(@colNames) = /^(\w+, \w+ (?:\w+)?)\s*(\w+)\s* .../;
    print "$hash{name}\n";
    print OUTPUT "$hash{name}\n";
}

close OUTPUT || die "Cannot close OUTPUT: $!\n";

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I didn't complete the regex ... that's left as an exercise for the reader. :-)

Update: Fixed while (defined <>) as per wog's comment.

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