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It’s a process that takes hundreds of hours and turns the summer—when most administrators take a relaxing break from the frenetic pace of the school year—into some of the busiest months for the Freshman Deans Office (FDO...

Author: By Adam M. Guren, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Freshman Roommates, Meet Your Makers | 8/12/2005 | See Source »

Dingman said that the FDO also usually tries to honor general requests like having an international roommate. However, he said that they will not honor any specific requests by name or put people who went to high school together...

Author: By Adam M. Guren, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Freshman Roommates, Meet Your Makers | 8/12/2005 | See Source »

...some cases, the FDO deliberately does not honor requests. Dingman, who worked on creating freshman roommates in the early seventies, gave the example of a student who wrote “put me with anyone but an effete southerner...

Author: By Adam M. Guren, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Freshman Roommates, Meet Your Makers | 8/12/2005 | See Source »

Still, James Mancall, one of three Associate Deans of Freshmen, emphasizes that the goals of the FDO will not change...

Author: By Liz C. Goodwin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Future of the First Year | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

...know both Dean Nathans and Dean Dingman to be fair, thoughtful, and experienced administrators,” Mancall says, “and the mission of the FDO will remain the same—helping first-year students to make the important transition from secondary school to college and beyond...

Author: By Liz C. Goodwin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Future of the First Year | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

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