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...College does not treat first-year students like full-fledged members of the Harvard community. If it did, then it would not subject them to the unfair and arcane policies of the Freshman Dean’s Office (FDO...
However, the way that the FDO carries out these policies creates a first-year experience that is overly unpleasant for students and doesn’t seem to reflect the ideals of respect and scholarly inquiry that are at the center of our University...
...virtually any student on campus to recount a tale where either that student, or one of his or her friends, was treated unfairly by the FDO and you will come up with a treasure-trove of surprising experiences. Although fortunately I have never had to interact with the FDO for a discipline-related problem, many people I know have, and the stories are not pretty...
...another case, a friend of mine was called into his assistant freshman dean’s office and chewed out after one of his parents had sent an e-mail to the FDO. The student was chastised by a Harvard administrator for bringing a parent into College affairs...
While Nathans explicitly notes that prefects are not suppossed to give academic advice to their prefectees, outside of the FDO, proctors and prefects alike disagree about what kind of advice is appropriate for prefects to give to first-years...