Word: gibsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Student attitudes are generally a matter of personality, not of prevalent elitism, Gibson says, adding that she can usually type a student from his or her physical manner. "Some charge in, come right behind my desk--which I hate--or stand back in and peer down at me. Others timidly lean in the doorway and if I don't happen to be looking up, they just sort of hang there until I notice them...
There's not a whole lot of interaction between the staff assistants even on a purely social level, Gibson says. "Sometimes it'll happen that two or three of us will end up in the same place at the same time and kibitz for a few minutes but it's rare. It's not that it's a tense or intense kind of place but it just doesn't lend itself to that," she says. "One person to one office really sets the tone," Gibson adds. In this respect, Gibson's experience at Widener, where about ten people shared...
...Gibson's work gives her more contact with students than with her fellow workers, and she has few complaints about this facet of the job. Sometimes undergraduates ask Epps or Gibson to serve as a go-between in protesting some aspect of a House policy that the student feels he or she can't attack alone. Sometimes they need financial help, or advice on a personal matter. Occasionally, Epps has summoned the student on a disciplinary matter. Epps is frequently the liaison between Harvard and Cambridge on legal issues affecting a student, whether it be a parking ticket scofflaw...
Epps is also the official who "keeps a passive eye on undergraduate organizations," Gibson says. She's been very impressed with the dynamism of the students involved in extracurricular activities and likes working with these groups--partially because they become familiar with how the office operates and therefore are less likely to pose problems for Gibson...
...Gibson doesn't recollect coming to Harvard with rigid preconceptions of what students here would be like, and after meeting a great many of them she doesn't feel that there is an archetypal Harvard student...