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Under a plan worked out by representatives of the Undergraduate Council and the Freshmen Dean's Office (FDO), departments will hold advising sessions and extend their office hours to answer questions about requirements and courses...
...Admissions Office is moving in the right direction with its recruitment program. But the FDO, Faculty, and President Bok must join it in efforts to increase Harvard's minority presence...
THAT HARVARD cares more about its balance sheet then its consciences becomes clear in other, smaller ways throughout any student's career have. A coalition of Third World and women's groups found themselves in confrontation with the Freshmen's Dean's Office (FDO) this month when the FDO refused the list their organizations' orientation events on the official Freshmen Week calendar, FDO officials argued that the events were "separatist" but the students--who rallied outside the office for several days--pointed out convincingly that Harvard's cares to make them feel at home only when it is immediately useful...
...recruiting will not help. Indeed, some student minority recruiters have said this year that they have mis-givings about recruiting other minorities in view of the University's response on some minority issues. Comparisons with other Ivy schools which have Third World Centers, the freshman dean's office (FDO) resistance to listing minority events on their official Freshman Week Calendar, a shortage of minority course offerings, and continuing controversy over the role of the Race Relations Foundation all may or may not contribute to this unease. But if they discourage accepted Blacks from enrolling, the damage they are doing...
...more intense than last year's endeavoring to speak to Black acceptees personally and find out specific reasons they turned Harvard down. But more important, the College must take a wider view of what has seemed so far to be merely an admissions, problem. The controversy over FDO minority events drew the accusation from some students that Harvard is supportive of minorities only as long as the results "show," as in admissions, but that once minorities are safely enrolled, questions of support and sensitivity take a back seat to the College's philosophy of combatting separatism--regardless of student wishes...