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...University will increase security around the Union dorms in the wake of a recent 30-person brawl on the steps of Pennypacker Hall involving Cambridge youths and Harvard freshmen, the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) announced this week...
...place of panels honestly addressing special problems of discrimination, insensitivity, and low expectations, which many minorities face at Harvard, the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) offered and featured one lifeless generic panel for all students. Vaguely entitled "Coping With Undergraduate Life," the panel did not address minority concerns explicitly, but featured two Black men, a white woman, and a white man, exuding happy diversity...
This Freshman Week idealism even filters down, inexplicably enough, to purely cultural events. The Foundation, an administrative entity independent of the FDO, was reportedly barred from using the term "Third World" in its "Evening of Third World Culture" held during Freshman Week. Instead, to obliterate any possible separatist overtones, the event was cheerfully retailed "An Evening of Song and Dance...
...source who has helped organize minority orientation activities charged that the FDO "was negligent" last year in planning freshman week Third World programs...
...source, who asked not to be identified, also said several undergraduate minority groups had approached the FDO last fall to hire a part-time worker responsible for co-ordinating Third World orientation. After arranging for workstudy money for a staffer with the Committee on Admissions and Financial Aid, the groups were turned down by Moses, the source added...