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...money returned by Mac-Gray, its final destination is quite surprising. Because it is not needed to pay the utility bills that students' tuition has already covered, the revenue generated from the Yard dormitories is sent straight from Mac-Gray into the coffers of the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO), while the revenue generated from each House's laundry facilities is sent to its House Committee (HoCo). According to administrators, this action is defensible because the excess money students are charged for laundry is returned to them indirectly through the services that the FDO and the various HoCo's provide...
...mail, Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley Nathans said that the FDO uses the money it receives from Mac-Gray "to help support first-year orientation programs and [other] special programs [such as] the grants [the FDO] makes to first-year projects in the arts, publications, and the like." While it is hard to dispute that these are laudable and fund-worthy programs, the fact remains that these programs do not benefit all first-years to the same extent. Most first-years do not participate in orientation programs and only a handful obtain the FDO's coveted grants. Consequently, although...
...FDO does not intend conversations with students to follow a disciplinary line of questioning, says Noah S. Selsby '95, a senior proctor of the Ivy Yard...
Susan W. Stern, a UHS nurse practitioner, says the decision to contact the Freshmen Dean's Office (FDO) or a senior tutor is actually left to the discretion of the nurse on call...
...Selsby disagrees with the conclusion that some proctors are not following FDO protocol...