Word: freshmen
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Under the freshman advising system, eachstudent is assigned to a proctor--a Harvardgraduate student or administrator--who lives inthe student's dormitory and takes care ofday-to-day problems for a group of approximately35 people. Proctors also serve as academicadvisers for most of their freshmen, although someare given nonresident advisers. Six senioradvisers oversee the process providing a secondlevel of supervision and counseling...
First-year proctor Johannes C. M. Zutt saysthis focus forces the proctor to be toorules-oriented, giving freshmen the wrongimpression of what Harvard is like. "One of thethings I think we should do is reform the approachthat proctors take in Freshman Week," says Zutt.He says that Harvard presents itself to freshmen"too much as a policing agent...
...Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) and Harvardadministrators are trying to broaden the issues towhich proctors and students are exposed when theyarrive. Assistant Dean for Minority Affairs HildaHernandez-Gravelle spoke to proctors about racialawareness before the freshmen arrived andcoordinated a Freshman Week panel on the samesubject. Just last week, Assistant Dean forCoeducation Janet A. Viggiani talked to proctorsabout how to approach questions concerning sexualorientation...
Nonetheless, gay, lesbian and bisexual leadersalso say that more efforts need to be made toteach freshmen about tolerance. They say thatsince most gay freshmen are still in the closet,their classmates are not forced to confrontdifferent sexual preferences directly andtherefore have an additional year in which todevelop homophobic attitudes...
...other members of the gay,lesbian and bisexual community say they would likea required proctor meeting that would bring in agroup like Contact--a peer group that offerscounseling on issues concerning sexuality. GLSAmembers add that they want the University's policyforbidding discrimination because of sexualorientation read aloud to all freshmen...