Word: entryway
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...proctors and tutors didn't write the rules, so why bother arguing with them? One person's objections will probably not change a policy intended for 6,400 people, or for the 20-some people in your entryway. In fact, your proctor or tutor probably represents the most sympathetic ear in the administration. He or she is also the person you'll be obliged to interact with for the rest of the year. It's best to smooth things over without trying to reach into the higher echelons of power...
Fortunately, the many people organizing and working on the project seemed able to maintain order among the hammering and tearing. Once the dust had cleared, Weld and Thayer had both lost their traditional physical entryway divisions--now, building residents didn't have to go outside to get to friends living on the other side of the dorm...
Liberals collect stories about Wasinger. Julie R. Cooper '94, an editor of the liberal monthly Perspective who lived in Wasinger's Thayer Hall entryway in their first year, recalls that on the eve of the Persian Gulf War, Wasinger had a message board on the door to his room that read, "Give war a chance, we've tried peace long enough...
Elizabeth C. Bayley '96, a resident of DunsterHouse, says she enjoys the relaxed relationshipwith her entryway tutor and concentration tutor,unlike the formal academic meetings with herfirst-year proctor...
...keep track every day of all 45students [in my entryway]," she says. "I can't doa whole lot if the student doesn't tell me thereis a problem and you don't want to be Big Brotherhanging over everybody's shoulder...