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Among these, the Bureau of Study Counsel stands closest to the central task of getting an education. Each year the Bureau serves nearly a thousand undergraduates by teaching seped reading and mathematics refresher courses, and by providing tutors and counselors. In addition, the Bureau refers some students to other appropriate agencies, and meets regularly for six weeks each year to discuss anonymous counseling records with other advisors. From such collaboration hopefully comes wiser and more insightful ways of advising...
...though the Bureau performs these several functions, the core of its operation is counseling. Upwards of six hundred students appear yearly--about half on their own initiative and half referred by other advisors--to seek counsel on a myriad of academic and more intimate emotional problems. The Bureau sets no rigid limits on what topics it will discuss, since a student's academic success often depends as much on his personal relations with family or girl friend as in his intrinsic ability or interest in studying...
...that both he and the counselor can comprehend. Then, counselor and student together can focus on the newly perceived problems to search for insights and solutions. Ideally, this collabortive effort develops in the student a capacity for productive self understanding and relieves him of a prolonged dependence upon the Bureau...
...spite of its extensive use by students, the Bureau surrounds itself with anonymity. William G. Perry, the director of thet Bureau, prefers not to expand but to work quietly with only those students who somehow find their way to his door. The problem is that when the demolition crews forced the Bureau to move from its relative obscurity on the fifth floor of rickety old Holyoke House to the pleasant white building on 5 Linden Street, more people began finding the door. Already the Bureau's staff of seven part-time counselors are often working full time including week-ends...
Expansion, however, is not a desirable solution. At the present, the Bureau is a refuge of intimacy amidst an increasingly impersonal University complex. To lose the Bureau's personal touch both within its close knit organization and with the other nineteen or so advisory bodies would be to lose much of its strength...