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...rated amount and quality of help their advisers provided in clarifying their career goals. Susan W. Lewis, associate dean of freshmen, will pore over the stacks of forms, synopsize the comments for each proctor, and analyze the results. The 94-per-cent response will give the FDO its most scientific indication of its performance this year...
...what exactly is the FDO's function? Students certainly hold different opinions on its role in the University's administrative structure. One freshman recently termed it "An unnecessary, bureaucratic, paternalistic institution." "An innocuous, friendly bunch of people," his Freshman Union dinnermate disagreed...
Moses lists the programs under the FDO's auspices: the freshman outdoor program, freshman week orientation, lectures and discussions in the Union, intramurals, the freshman council, concentration selection meetings and, of course, the proctorial and advising system. In the last three years, since all freshmen have been housed in the Yard, the FDO has had to deal with what Henry C. Moses, dean of freshman, terms a "tough philosophical question." "Is the level of panic higher if the community's entirely frosh? I don't know," he concedes. Though he says Harvard "has two freshman years in effect," Moses thinks...
...despite the nearly 200 letters Moses has received from freshmen applauding the housing policy, many other freshmen find the FDO inadequate in meeting their needs. "Nothing is sufficient, Moses sighs. "There will always be times a freshman needs to know something and we can't offer adequate advice. The point is to diminish the number of such situations." And Moses concedes the FDO gets mixed results for its efforts. "Some days I think there's no place else where such good stuff is happening. Other days, it feels like the back of my hand," he says...
...Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) had to assign people to "some rooms that we thought could be crowded that had not been crowded" because the Class of '83 has about 50 more residents than the Class of '82, Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen, said yesterday...