Word: fdo
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Responding to the recent proliferation of plastic firearms and neon Nerf missiles, Harvard has chosen to enforce its own Social Avenue Limitation Treaty. Last week, the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) notified all first-years that they were forbidden to play any version of the game Assassin. According to Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth S. Nathans, the game is "destructive" and "fundamentally at odds with basic standards of behavior and interaction in the College...
...would be hard-pressed to think that the FDO actually believes the game is legitimately plagued by security concerns. Rather, threatening to enforce a ban (which nobody's heard of until now) under a feeble excuse is indicative of a short-sighted view of campus life. Normally, the College should be jumping to endorse precisely this type of social activity--after all, students are interacting with each other in a meaningful and creative context which doesn't require drugs or alcohol...
Perhaps the FDO is taking its lead from the Masters of Lowell House, who, two weeks ago, banned the game because it "is not in keeping with spirit of community life." But it is one thing for House Masters to assess the value of individual House-wide activities. Although we encourage the Masters of Lowell to give the game a chance after all, the game--in one form or another--has thus far successfully promoted positive values of community and social interaction in Pforzheimer and Quincy Houses), it is ultimately their decision whether or not the game is consistent with...
...Linsey Marr '96, senior project inspiration stood right in her common room. Working with a Boston design firm, she refitted a halogen lamp (not yet the bane of the FDO) with a fluorescent bulb and a more efficient reflector. The result used one-third the power and produced more light than the original, but you still couldn't dry your clothes...
...Frankly, such an edict from the FDO ischilling and begs the question, what next? No sexin Freshman Dorms because sex is a 'dangerousactivity' through which various diseases can bepassed?" said Michael A. O'Mary '99-'00, a formercouncil member...