Word: proctor
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Kennedy had been struggling in Spanish A and was not confident about the final exam in spring 1951. William A. Frate ’54 agreed to take the exam under Kennedy’s name, but was caught by the proctor. Frate and Kennedy were both asked to take a year off, and Kennedy’s father, Joseph P. Kennedy ’12, went berserk...
...fall of my junior year, I wrote a series of columns in these pages which, so it seemed to me at the time, constituted a veritable barrage of hard-hitting, muckraking journalism. Having served as a summer school proctor the previous summer, I decried the practice of granting degree credit for watered down, easy summer courses. I expressed righteous indignation at the Z-list—the Admissions Office’s de facto special help program for the children of wealthy alumni. I ranted and raved about the pervasive cheating that occurs on problem sets in large lecture courses...
...then there are the actual incidents, the exam horror stories, that necessitate proctor intervention...
...exam was given to the student at University Health Services when he recovered. It was administered by a proctor who is stationed there during all exams in case of an emergency...
While rare, these situations require substantial advance planning. Not only is there a proctor camped out at UHS, but the protectors are instructed to read emergency protocols at the beginning of every exam...