Word: proctor
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Matthew J. DeGreeff ’89 has been a proctor for nine years—first in Grays Hall and now in Greenough—and currently serves as a senior proctor. On the first Sunday night meeting with his students during his first year proctoring, DeGreeff delivered his spiel on dangerous religious groups and was surprised to discover that one of his students had already joined the BCC after being on campus for only one day. The church had even seen to it to warn her that her proctor would speak out against the church but to disregard...
These small farmers are currently trapped in an economic crisis. Coffee prices are at an all-time low, less than 40 cents per pound. (However, prices for consumers have in fact increased, and major coffee companies such as Nestle, Starbucks and Proctor and Gamble are making enormous profits.) Current economic conditions hold potential for even greater hardships for impoverished coffee farmers, many of whom can barely afford to educate their children or provide health care and food for their families. Extreme poverty in coffee producing countries such as Nicaragua has led to massive urban migrations, and the dependence of many...
...Mart is an exception because it focuses on management instead of technology. It shares just about every piece of market data it collects—we’re talking petabytes here—with its suppliers, which has proven so vital for the consumer products industry that Proctor & Gamble, makers of everything from Charmin to Crisco to Cover Girl, have an office employing more than 200 people in Wal-Mart’s small-town Arkansas headquarters. Its logistics and distribution system is smart enough to know which ethnicities of Barbie sell better in which stores. It pioneered...
...prospective floaters heard from a variety of sources who sought to calm their nerves, including a sophomore who had floated last year, a first-year proctor and a psychiatrist from University Health Services...
Harvard people and places also come up in conversation when Avery talks about her dog, King Bacchus. When she was a freshman proctor in the Yard, she acquired him through M. Suzanne Renna, now the associate director of the Bureau of Study Counsel...