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Admissions Office: A;; application material, recommendations. Forwarded to FDO if you are admitted; kept for three years if you are not. Access limited to office personnel, admissions officers, you. You do not have access to recommendations to which you have waived viewing rights...
Burris Young, associate dean of freshmen, said yesterday students must seek approval from Harvard Student Agencies (HSA), which runs the Union foyer for the FDO, to set up tables to distribute literature...
...trouble for many students seems to start freshman year, when advising is narrowed to focus exclusively on every up and down of the freshman year experience. Evangeline Morphos, a senior adviser for several years in the Yard, says the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) emphasizes too much "how to get through freshman year, rather than helping students to look at college as a four-year plan." Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen, disagrees that the freshman advising system places too much emphasis on counseling on personal problems. He points out that proctors aren't the only source of advice...
Proctors, Morphos says, are not qualified to serve as academic advisers. But about 75 per cent of freshmen are assigned to their proctor as their academic adviser, isolating them from seeking faculty advice from the start. Students "need to be fired up about academics here," Morphos says, but the FDO's approach "too often is to offer extracurricular options as an alternative to connecting with the University...
...time freshmen leave the Yard, the damage has already been done. Perceived isolation from faculty carries over into the next three years. Furthermore, because much of this experience is so well-orchestrated, so overly planned by the FDO from Freshman Week on, students expect to have their academic lives as clearly mapped out for them for the rest of their time at Harvard...