Word: fdo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...laugh. No offense meant to Nathans, who's a lovely woman, but she represents the Freshman Dean's Office. The very same FDO has been telling first-years--for who knows how long--that noisiest part of residential living, part of the College experience. It comes with the territory. Frosh must learn to live with their roommates and neighbors, and living together includes tolerating your neighbors' noise...
Before the year even starts, the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) does its best to minimize roommate strife by sending incoming first-years a lengthy questionaire to help match them with compatible roommates...
Sparagana says the deans try to find the right balance between common interests and diverse backgrounds. A goal of the FDO is that roommates learn from each other, she says...
Although bizarre name coincidences suggest a sense of humor in the FDO, the deans responsible insist that they play no games...
...dorms. Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth S. Nathans cited a decline in the number of students requesting smoking rooms as a reason for the new policy: "There have been fewer than a dozen [students who indicate that they smoke on their rooming applications] for the last several years." If the FDO believes this to be a true representation of the number of smokers on this campus, then it is to naive to make a decision concerning them. If, however, as we think, the FDO is hiding behind this excuse as a justification for the new policy, then we believe...