Word: fdo
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Voutilainen said the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) has also provided students with homes for the holidays through church host programs around the country...
...said the FDO proposed sending her to a bed and breakfast. She said she was worried she would have to recuperate where she did not feel comfortable...
Volume XIII, issue 12 of the Yard Bulletin featured an exhortation to students to vote against lifting the boycott on serving grapes in Harvard's dining halls. Since the Bulletin is published by the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO), this sort of comment seems inappropriate. If the FDO wishes to enter into dialogue with students about a political issue that concerns them, it should do so either by way of printing propaganda for both sides or printing well-informed commentary on the issue. Students have a right to make up their mind on their own, and the dean's office...
...claiming that supporting the boycott somehow upholds human rights, the dean's office makes the implicit statement that only unionized grape pickers have human rights, a statement that ought to be rejected by all thinking human beings. In not taking such factors into consideration in their exhortation, the FDO has acted in a morally reprehensible fashion. The Bulletin, a publication supposedly printed to provide important information to first-years, should not be a source of questionable political propaganda. I believe that the student body deserves an apology from the Freshman Dean's Office for its transgression. --Roman Altshuler...
Fithian adds that "the FDO does not allow postering of any kind in common hallways," which includes coins, he says...