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Christopher W. Mackey ’06, who is travelling with the baseball team to Fort Lauderdale for spring training, was surprised when he received the e-mail from the FDO...
Florida-bound students may return from their spring-break trips with an unpleasant and serious bacterial infection, according to a warning e-mail sent to all first-years by the Freshman Dean’s Office (FDO) this week...
Joel Richard, a staff assistant at the FDO, sent the warning to the first-year class list after he received it from an employee at University Health Services...
This latest act by the FDO also serves to impede the community-building efforts of FM. Many students enjoy reading about the weekend activities of other students on campus; FM helps to provide a sense of community for an often-disconnected Harvard populace. By using FM as a sort of informant, the administration weakens its ability to act as a bridge between students. Harvard’s weekend social activities are no secret to anyone. For the administration to pretend that seeing it in print would startle anyone is simply pretentious...
...this latest act by the FDO is more than a little disappointing. Intimidation of students, while not really surprising, is something which one would hope not to see from a school of Harvard’s caliber. The administration needs to relax, and stop trying to force undergraduates to fit into its picture of the model Harvard student...