<p>Noticed on the Smith web site that a new dean for the first-year class has been appointed, Jane Stangl.</p>
<p>Does anyone know anything about her? Also, how much, if any, interaction did you have with the first-year dean? </p>
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<p>I had 1 email with Dean Riddell about taking a 5 clg class. That’s about it</p>
<p>Usually you don’t have interaction with your dean unless something goes really wrong. Like your professor is terrorizing you, or you’re failing your classes hardcore, or you have some need to withdraw from school, etc. </p>
<p>You may go to the dean’s office from time to time to drop off paperwork, but on those visits you don’t usually see your dean. For example, you need the dean’s signature if you’re going to use your free drop to drop a class (after the two week shopping period. During shopping period you can add and drop classes at will). I think you need it if you’re going to take a class pass/fail and maybe for a few other paperwork reasons.</p>
<p>Yeah, all my interactions with Tom Riddell come from the fact that he is also the Quidditch team faculty advisor. (Because he has an excellent sense of humor)</p>
<p>I do know people who have met with him…someone who was only taking 14 credits both semesters about what her plan for catching up was going to be, someone taking a 5-college class, etc.</p>
<p>Dean Riddell was notable for saying, “No, I am not <em>that</em> Tom Riddell.”</p>
<p>If you need it explained to you, you’re not the audience for his remark.
But hah-hah that he was faculty advisor for the Quidditch team.</p>
<p>OK, I just laughed for a solid minute about Dean Riddell being the Quidditch team advisor. I do like that man, he does have a very good sense of humor. </p>
<p>I remembered that you’ll also occasionally listen to your Dean speak and they may appear at some teas.</p>
<p>I met with him once of academics to drop my 5th class (kind of silly really), and I knew him because he was in charge of the SAA’s.</p>
<p>Jane Stangl is in the ESS department and all of the ESS grad students I know absolutely love her.</p>
<p>I e-mailed him to talk about my decision regarding next year, but I didn’t have a lot of interaction with him otherwise. I do wonder why he’s leaving.</p>
<p>I would say he just decided it was a good time to retire and enjoy himself. :D</p>