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...Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) will be without a familiar face next semester when Assistant Dean of Freshmen Eleanor Sparagana leaves her Harvard position at the University of Virginia...
...aims in freshman rooming find their counterpart in the randomization of the upperclass Houses, a policy which the FDO welcomed and we continue to support," wrote Dean of Freshman Elizabeth Studley Nathans in an e-mail to The Crimson...
Whether the FDO intentionally deviated from its policy by placing similar students together, or whether this year's distributions are simply a result of D'Aoust's individual choices, is unclear because D'Aoust and the FDO did not answer repeated, specific about this year's distribution. But either way, the result is the same: a partial return to non-randomized housing...
Nathans acknowledges that the FDO, in itsattempts to give appropriate consideration tostudent preferences, "often...find[s] that we havebrought together more students of similarbackgrounds, interests, or even ethnicities thanwe aspire...
...living community where many people sharecommon interests, "the people who aren't like thatfeel out of place," Nguyen says, "But I canunderstand why [the FDO] might do it because itmight make people more comfortable...