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...Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth S. Nathans Finishes her first year at Harvard and convenes the Publications and Planning Committee today to contemplate changes in next year's orientation week activities, she and others at the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) must institute long-needed reforms for orientation week 1993 and continue to encourage student input in the planning of next fall's events...
Part of making students sensitive to their new classmates backgrounds should include the University recognizing the diverse religious backgrounds students have. The FDO must end its habit of scheduling mandatory functions on the Jewish high holidays--particularly next year when Rosh Hashanah falls at the end of orientation week. The FDO must take into account all religious holidays when setting the orientation week calendar...
...accommodate the added schedule of events, orientation week activities could continue in the evenings of the first semester's "shopping week," an innovation that has already been presented to FDO officials. First-years, like upperclass students, rarely know which classes they are taking by then and thus would have homework-free time to devote to these discussions...
Finally, the FDO committee could help introduce first-years to their new home: Cambridge and Boston. While hunts for plates in the Yard would still continue, proctors and upper class students should continue to accompany the new students on a trip into the city. It would give first-years a better understanding of their surroundings and encourage them to take advantage of the cultural offerings that the Hub presents. Above all, in all the excitement of their first week of college life, students should be urged to think of themselves as citizens of a larger, urban community...
Some students felt the FDO could have done abetter job communicating their decision. "No onewas told anything," said 29 Garden St. residentJonathan Korngold '96. "It seems veryclandestine...