Word: fdo
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...anonymous e-mail, from "John Harvard" at a yahoo.com e-mail address, asked all proctors to fill out a survey about their experience working for the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO), and then send it, anonymously, to Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley "Ibby" Nathans...
...virtually any student on campus to recount a tale where either that student, or one of his or her friends, was treated unfairly by the FDO and you will come up with a treasure-trove of surprising experiences. Although fortunately I have never had to interact with the FDO for a discipline-related problem, many people I know have, and the stories are not pretty...
...another case, a friend of mine was called into his assistant freshman dean’s office and chewed out after one of his parents had sent an e-mail to the FDO. The student was chastised by a Harvard administrator for bringing a parent into College affairs...
Perhaps more sad, though, than the stories where students are simply treated poorly by FDO administrators, are those in which students are intimidated or coerced into making statements to the FDO. Threatened with the all-encompassing charge of conduct unbecoming to a Harvard student, some undergraduates are simply pumped for information even if they were not directly implicated in a certain event...
...time when we should be most proud of our alma mater, my view of Harvard is substantially tarnished by the way first-years are treated at the College. This treatment is no secret to anyone who has interacted with the FDO, but people outside Cambridge deserve to know how the whole truth, not just the rosy picture put forth by the administration. Everyone on Harvard’s campus knows this goes on, and more people outside of Cambridge should as well...