Word: proctor
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...done. For all of our sakes, let’s declare a moratorium on freakouts for the next few months; they’re unpleasant, and they’re contagious. No one is going to be homeless on June 8th, 2007 (hint: the job is called summer school proctor). Everyone else, I don’t know what you’re so relaxed about. You’ve only got a couple more years! Don’t waste another minute! Get up off the couch right now! Study hard, party a lot, get a Netflix membership?...
...Freshman proctor Leonard G. H. Wood—currently in his second year of proctoring—has encountered first-years dealing with a variety of depression symptoms, including skipping classes or meals, insomnia and having difficulty interacting socially with other students. However, almost all of the harm is self-contained...
What the College should do is expand an already-existing essay program, in which freshmen come together to discuss, among other texts, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 1841 essay “Self-Reliance” within their proctor groups. The initiative was started by Archie C. Epps III, in part to counter the racial tensions on campus that eventually led to randomization. Since then, essays have been added and subtracted, but Emerson’s “Self-Reliance” has always been among them...
...them. “They’ve been a little bit boring and redundant. I happened to know everything that they were saying and I think that the other students did too,” Tainsh said. However, Loretta Kim ’99, a freshman proctor, said that while the sessions do repeat information that freshmen already know, they are designed to reinforce certain messages. “It is very different learning the information off-campus in any setting before you get here and then actually being on campus,” she said...
...South.” And it is this insensitivity that has led even such a paragon of human rights as Coca-Cola to be somewhat critical of “Survivor: Cook Islands,” choosing to withdraw advertising from the show along with other companies such as Proctor & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, Campbell Soup, General Motors, and Home Depot.Alas, “Survivor: Cook Islands” is merely a stunt, and the numbers show it. Only a little more than 18 million people tuned into the show’s premiere, a lackluster audience share...