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Under Moses, the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) has gone beyond academic supervision and has taken to planning for numerous social events. And in fact, although it is still not an independent unit, the FDO has moved from a cramped office in University Hall to relatively spacious quarters in its own building on 6 Prescott...
First-year students are often considered separate from the rest of the College, and so too are their administrators. Although the FDO has not escaped the watchful eye of the dean of the College, it has operated with a high degree of autonomy, something which Moses says can have its pitfalls...
...downside is that we are seen as operating as an island," Moses says. "We say we are doing things better for freshmen, such as 'our advising is better than advising in upperclass years.' There is the tendency to let the FDO be separate like the freshmen are separate from upper class life. We are a tight group and can look at ourselves as our own college, which is politically disastrous, educationally disastrous...
Dean of First-Year Students Henry C. Moses saidyesterday that for now the FDO has instructedsenior advisors to inform students about theletter, and to counsel any students or parentsconfused or offended by its contents...
Administrators speculated that Wishnatskyobtained mailing information from class registers.The FDO does not release names and addresses ofstudents...