Word: counselors
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During the summer session, students bunk down in a Davidson dorm and are awakened each morning at 6 by one of the 19 college-age counselor-mentors who live there with them. The schedule is intensive: classes run from 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., and youngsters are required to be in their rooms doing homework until 10 p.m. The packed curriculum includes lessons twice a week in leadership, spiritual development and "wellness," a catchall term for such subjects as sexuality and drug use. "Students can't graduate if they're pregnant or addicted," explains wellness instructor Georgia Ringle...
Like so many who breathe the intoxicating air of power, Durenberger thought he could get away with bending the rules. Limits on speaking fees? Launder the money by counting excess payments as book-promotion fees. Trips to a marriage counselor in Boston too expensive? Arrange business lunches and collect honorariums. Need some extra income? Bill the government rent for staying in a condominium you own. Not until after the committee issued its recommendation did Durenberger concede that "I have made serious mistakes. I acknowledge them and accept full responsibility...
...business," James Higgins, a professor of business at Florida's Rollins College, says with regret. "It's touchy- feely." Experimentation in fluid management style is pretty much confined to less than 10% of all U.S. firms. "What makes anyone think that managements want more creativity?" asks Audrey Freedman, management counselor for the Conference Board, a business research group. "It's uncontrollable. It's rather unsettling to foster creativity and might even be self-defeating for a manager. The job of management is to control." The adjustment isn't easy. "A lot of managers are in role shock. They're still...
After two days of camp, other counselors also sensed tension between the Jewish and Palestinian campers, and planned separate meetings for the two groups to air their grievances. Springer led the group of Jewish campers, while his Palestinian co-counselor led the Palestinian group. Springer asked his group, "What do you think of Arabs?" He received answers like, "They're dangerous," "I wouldn't trust them," and "Why do they have to stay in my country...
...girl came up to me afterward and said, 'I hate our Arab co-counselor--I want to stab her.'" Springer remembers. She didn't show these feelings at all when she was with the counselor. And I remember thinking that the best thing for her would be to have genuine interaction with the Palestinian counselor...