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Jessica L. Ross ’03 will blaze the trail for future generations of freshmen as the new director of the First-Year Outdoor Program (FOP), the Freshmen Dean’s Office (FDO) announced Tuesday. Ross has served as FOP’s interim director since last September, when former FOP director Brent J. Bell left for a professorship at the University of New Hampshire. Ross has had a long history with the program, which runs six-day pre-orientation camping trips in New England for incoming freshmen each September. After participating in FOP as a freshman...
...perpetual war against chemically and sexually ignorant freshmen, the Freshman Dean’s Office (FDO) has a new weapon in its arsenal. This fall, the FDO introduced the Freshman Residential Education (FRED) program, which aims to help first-years acclimate to Harvard, according to the FDO’s website. Unlike previous education programs, FRED is divided into two parts. The first part—FRED I—is a mandatory series of three sessions on sexual assault, alcohol and drug abuse, and general wellness. Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman ’67 said that each...
...Harvard—California, New York, New Jersey and D.C. Despite this lack of regional, political or racial uniqueness, my roommates and I had profound differences in lifestyle—so much so that, midway through first semester, it became necessary for the Freshman Dean’s Office (FDO) to intervene and for one of us to move across campus...
...eager first-year, this is probably the last story you want to hear as you look forward to meeting the people with whom you’ll spend the next nine months. However, my roommate experience has, in retrospect, provided a perspective worth sharing on conflict resolution, navigating the FDO, and handling the unique problems posed by living with complete strangers...
...five of us—and particularly for the roommate at the center of the drama—it allowed us to recognize that our differences were irreconcilable. We became unified in our frustration that our proctor was not acting fast enough, and took our situation to the FDO ourselves...