Word: proctore
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...Being a proctor is not a 24-hour job," saysVirginia Mackay-Smith, senior adviser for thenorth Yard. She adds that proctors do not need togive all their time to the job to give it enoughtime and energy. Furthermore, she says, proctorswho need to be away often post a number at whichthey can be reached and tell other proctors tolook after their flock...
Susie Chao '86, an admissions officer who isalso a proctor, says that when she goes on tripsshe likes to send her students postcards and callto keep in touch...
...addition, the senior advisers always knowwhere to reach a proctor. "If something happenedand we needed to get in touch, we could do it,"Mckay-Smith says...
First-year proctor Johannes C. M. Zutt saysthis focus forces the proctor to be toorules-oriented, giving freshmen the wrongimpression of what Harvard is like. "One of thethings I think we should do is reform the approachthat proctors take in Freshman Week," says Zutt.He says that Harvard presents itself to freshmen"too much as a policing agent...
...meetings also present a problembecause a number of issues are presented in a waythat does not encourage dialogue. For example,students are usually told that they will bepunished if they harass someone because of his orher sexual orientation. But students may notrealize that they can talk to their proctor aboutquestions of sexual identity...