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After six years in the Freshman Dean’s Office (FDO), Assistant Dean of Freshmen Wendy E.F. Torrance is leaving Harvard and heading for the Kansas City area, where her husband, Andrew, has accepted a position at the University of Kansas Law School...
...addition to expressing admiration for her colleagues in the FDO and the proctors with whom she worked, Torrance called Nathans an invaluable mentor and friend to her family, though she said that her and Nathans’ departures were unrelated...
...hopefully abortive noises about formally affiliating freshmen with residential houses suggests—it would be wise to encourage upperclassmen-freshmen interaction from the moment freshmen set foot in the Yard. However, it shouldn’t end when freshman week does. The Freshman Dean’s Office (FDO) should consider expanding the Prefect Program to several prefects per entryway, which may in turn require increased publicity around the time prefect applications are due. And prefects should be encouraged, if not required, to be on campus during freshman week in order to provide friendly faces and convenient advice early...
...incumbent on the FDO and the Office the Dean of the College to make the necessary changes: House Committees are overburdened already, the Undergraduate Council will not be in session that early in the year, and the Crimson Key Society’s primary goal is to encourage socialization within the freshman class. Change must come from the top. That’s why the FOAC’s recent survey of current freshmen about freshman week is a good start. By incorporating more upperclassmen-freshmen contact and broader advising, the FOAC will ensure that freshman week lives...
Dingman, who has served as a freshman proctor and a senior tutor for both Leverett and Dudley Houses, will take part in appointments made through the FDO this spring. Assistant Deans of Freshmen James Mancall and Lesley Nye Barth said yesterday that they were pleased about his appointment...