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...survey, written by a group of proctors, was organized without the consent--or even the knowledge--of administrators in the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO...
...anonymous e-mail, from "John Harvard" at a yahoo.com e-mail address, asked all proctors to fill out a survey about their experience working for the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO), and then send it, anonymously, to Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley "Ibby" Nathans...
According to an introductory note that accompanied the survey, the evaluation was intended to jumpstart a discussion about "the role of proctors: what is working, what is not," and to "prompt the FDO to have [proctors] officially evaluate [their] experience in future years...
Perhaps more sad, though, than the stories where students are simply treated poorly by FDO administrators, are those in which students are intimidated or coerced into making statements to the FDO. Threatened with the all-encompassing charge of conduct unbecoming to a Harvard student, some undergraduates are simply pumped for information even if they were not directly implicated in a certain event...
...time when we should be most proud of our alma mater, my view of Harvard is substantially tarnished by the way first-years are treated at the College. This treatment is no secret to anyone who has interacted with the FDO, but people outside Cambridge deserve to know how the whole truth, not just the rosy picture put forth by the administration. Everyone on Harvard’s campus knows this goes on, and more people outside of Cambridge should as well...