Word: fdo
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...mail circulating late last night, purportedly from the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO), announced the cancellation of all Harvard classes, but College administrators said the message was not true...
...This means that they don't contribute to House Committee or Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) programs that are financed by laundry money. Why should less-wealthy students subsidize FDO and House Committee activities for rich students...
...money returned by Mac-Gray, its final destination is quite surprising. Because it is not needed to pay the utility bills that students' tuition has already covered, the revenue generated from the Yard dormitories is sent straight from Mac-Gray into the coffers of the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO), while the revenue generated from each House's laundry facilities is sent to its House Committee (HoCo). According to administrators, this action is defensible because the excess money students are charged for laundry is returned to them indirectly through the services that the FDO and the various HoCo's provide...
...mail, Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley Nathans said that the FDO uses the money it receives from Mac-Gray "to help support first-year orientation programs and [other] special programs [such as] the grants [the FDO] makes to first-year projects in the arts, publications, and the like." While it is hard to dispute that these are laudable and fund-worthy programs, the fact remains that these programs do not benefit all first-years to the same extent. Most first-years do not participate in orientation programs and only a handful obtain the FDO's coveted grants. Consequently, although...
Consequently, as with the FDO programs mentioned above, funneling laundry revenues through HoCo's is not an equitable method of redistribution. If College administrators believe that HoCo's are important and responsible enough to receive the thousands of dollars generated by House laundry facilities each year, then the College should consider funding HoCo's out of its own pocket instead of supporting them through funds that have been exploited from unknowing students...