Word: proctore
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...rules may be up for limit revision this year--girls had to be in by 1 a.m. on week nights, 2 a.m. on weekends. They are allowed three "late night" permissions for the entire summer, subject to prior blanket permission from their parents and specific authorization from their proctor, usually a graduate student...
Students are introduced to the University Police during their first two weeks in the Yard. Summoned to their proctor's room for a first meeting, freshmen sip beer in awed silence while their advisor discourses casually on the Freshman Year at Harvard. He dispatches quickly with incidentals like study cards, course requirements, and grades and gets down to the essentials of Yard life...
...where will you turn? Perhaps to a Cliffie with an absorbant shoulder or you'll make a quick phone call to the familial fold. You can have a long chat with a college chum or get unsolicited advice from your Freshman proctor. All these solutions have their advantages, but no friend in need has the skills of your local shrink...
...More freshmen than ever seem to be smoking pot and taking LSD," one proctor said. "The increase since last year is enormous...
...They are afraid of losing their friends," one proctor said. "And when they see their friends taking drugs, they feel pressured to do it too, even if they don't especially want to. That is one of the real dangers of the increase in freshman drug taking. It is simply too insecure a period to start doing...