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...Mackay-Smith does want to bring back, however, a tradition that has gone by the wayside in recent years: end of the year proctor skits about inside jokes of first-year life...
...proctors work so hard all year long. Then the students leave and there is a real letdown," says Mackay-Smith. "I think it's healthy and fun to look back on the year to laugh and cry about...
Besides being happy with the specific procedures involved in advising, Mackay-Smith supports the overall existing philosophy the FDO has taken on this issue in the past decade--namely, that it is better to err on the side of too much, instead of too little advising...
...Mackay-Smith concedes that possibly coddling first-years could lead to making students too dependent, which may leave them night and dry in their upperclass houses sophomore year...
...However, Mackay-Smith points out, "They don't get the level of advising they received as freshmen because they aren't freshmen anymore...