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...perpetual war against chemically and sexually ignorant freshmen, the Freshman Dean’s Office (FDO) has a new weapon in its arsenal. This fall, the FDO introduced the Freshman Residential Education (FRED) program, which aims to help first-years acclimate to Harvard, according to the FDO??s website. Unlike previous education programs, FRED is divided into two parts. The first part—FRED I—is a mandatory series of three sessions on sexual assault, alcohol and drug abuse, and general wellness. Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman ’67 said that each...
...first-time freshmen offenders will now be asked to have a chat with their proctors, in what will be a far more constructive and less disciplinary conversation. But small social gatherings will not reinvigorate freshman social life on their own, especially for the less extroverted freshmen. We applaud the FDO??s plans to collaborate with the First-Year Social Committeee (FYSC) to plan more class-wide events. In years past, the FYSC has thrown a mean freshman formal but has done little else in the way of social programming. It has increased its repertoire this year, including...
Under Dingman, who currently oversees residential life for upperclassmen, the FDO??and the first year as a whole—are likely to become less self-contained...
Kirby, however, has said that the proposed changes to the first-year advising system and established affiliations with Houses do not necessarily signal change in the FDO??s role in the lives of first-years...
Gross said last spring that the FDO??s role as a “safety net” is an indispensable part of the first-year experience, but would not comment on what the future of the office would...