Word: fdo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) assigns between one and four prefects to every proctor who participates in the three-year-old program...
Hassan said that he tells the FDO weekly about the problems, but that the College has no formal plans to renovate the building. "Ultimately [the renovation] is a decision of the Dean [of Freshmen Henry C. Moses] with the physical plant," Hassan said...
Farber, who has spoken to senior freshman advisor Tom Hassan about conditions in the dorm, said he thinks most people at the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) know about the problem. "The fact that they're aware, doesn't mean that they're going to do anything about it," he noted...
...propose a new system. Unlike the present system, frosh would be required to rank all houses in order of preference. Then, similar to how it was done under the old system, a lottery would assign numbers secretly to each rooming group. Then, the FDO would grant each group's wishes according to its lottery number and preference list. The rooming group that received number one would receive their top choice. The rest of the rooming groups in order would then get their top choice contingent on its availability. Freshmen would then be notified of the results...
...program itself was in no danger. Members of the FDO and the Undergraduate Council, which initiated the prefect system, promised to maintain and expand the experimental program, which involves only one-third of the proctor units...