Word: fdo
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...FDO Feature Neglected Alternate Viewpoints
...read with interest the article that you published in Monday morning's Crimson: "Nathans' FDO: High Turnover and a Heavy Hand" (College...
...worked at the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) for four years (1996-2000)--as an Assistant Dean of Freshmen for the first two years and as Associate Dean of Freshmen for the last two years. The reporter contacted me last spring with regard to the article that he was planning to write...
Many former FDO employees have in fact moved on to positions of increased responsibility at Harvard and elsewhere. This is a good thing and is in the natural course of events. As someone who worked under Dean Nathans for the last four years, I feel that this article evinces a taste for sensationalism at the expense of objectivity and fairness...
Over the course of the four months that staff writer Parker R. Conrad worked on this piece, he interviewed dozens of FDO employees, former employees and students. While D.E. Lorraine Sterritt did not use the words "saw no basis for the allegations," the experiences she described did not match charges by many former assistant deans interviewed for the story. The sidebar, which was published originally as a separate but linked story on the website, was meant to paraphrase succinctly areas of agreement between Sterritt and the two other assistant deans whose experiences in the FDO did not match the allegations...