Word: fdo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before that time, the FDO needs to come up with a concrete vision of what they expect prefects to do beyond providing friendship. Otherwise, prefects will continue to be frustrated and feel (correctly) that they are just wasting time...
However, many of the proctors don't know what to do with the prefects, and the prefects don't have a clue what their role is. The FDO runs a couple of "training sessions" which are supposed to enlighten prefects and suggest ways to interact with freshmen, but the first one was so boring and of so little value that I didn't bother going to the second--which took place three months later...
...FDO is a lot better at coming up with prohibitions than at making positive sugestions. Visit your frosh, they suggest. Take them to dinner in the houses. Well, freshmen are busy people, and some upperclassman who shows up once or twice a week to run a study break or take people to dinner just doesn't generate a lot of interest...
...PREFECT program is admittedly still in its early stages. The FDO only recently selected a prefect steering committee to oversee the program and chose next year's prefects. And not every freshman group has a prefect. Only proctors who asked for them were assigned prefects. Ultimately, every proctorial group will have prefects, the program's organizers say, but no one knows exactly when that will happen...
...hope that the FDO eventually works out the kinks in the prefect program. But I won't be around if they do. When I received my application for next year's prefect program, I took a long look at it and tossed it in the trash...