Word: advisor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...computer randomly divides the files of the freshman class into six groups representing approximately 250 students apiece. The computer then arbitrarily assigns each group to the north, south, east or west Yard, to Canaday or to the Union dorms. Each group of folders then goes to a senior advisor who spends several days carefully spreading them out in his or her office, on top of the desk and all over the floor...
...first separation each senior adviser makes is to divide the smokers from the non-smokers, says Robin M. Worth '81, the south Yard senior advisor who coordinated the rooming effort this past summer. The advisors then separate the messy from the meticulous, and the socialites from the studious. From within these sub-groups, each advisor tries to create rooming units that are diverse and yet share some common bonds, Worth says...
...Caroline Quillian Stubs '80, senior advisor for the east Yard, says that it is difficult to strike a balance between heterogeneity and homogeneity in a single room. "I'm mostly trying for unity in the rooms. I mean, it would be nice to have a diverse unity, but that's not always possible...
Activity is just one of the many different factors that each senior adviser weighs in creating the rooming groups in his or her section of the freshman dorms. Karen L. Heath, senior advisor for the Union dorms, says she places a lot of emphasis on keeping night owls and early risers apart, while Stubbs says that she considers musical tastes to be particularly important...
Worth says she advises freshmen who have problems with their roommates to try to work things out within the room. If this does not work, freshmen should arrange for their proctors to mediate the argument, she says. And, as a last resort, the senior advisor can be called in to deal with the situation...