Word: proctoring
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Harvard Square’s Massive Records, is slated to begin at 5 p.m.—well before dark. Despite the uncharacteristic warmth, blazers are more prevalent than wife-beaters. Wordy, intellectual rhymes from underground hip-hopper Busdriver pipe through the speakers before the show. A freshman proctor has come to watch the battle. Nonetheless, anticipation is still high. The show was coordinated by The Darker Side (TDS)—WHRB’s hip-hop program. Before the show, Sam D. G. Jacoby ’08, co-director of TDS, bounces around giddily...
Hang Liu ’09 knows how to break it down. The Holworthy frosh left WHRB’s freestyle rap battle last Friday with something every rapper wants to take home to his crib: victory. With the vocal support of some friends and his proctor, Liu overcame three challengers and an at-times hostile crowd in head-to-head dis dishes on a large makeshift stage in Massive Records on Mass. Ave. But despite his lyric-spitting prowess, the NYC native isn’t all about battling. “I like much more just writing...
...editors: As a former proctor and director of the prefect program, I support the creation of an academic peer advising system for Harvard College but fear the best elements of the prefect program will be lost with its demise (“College Pulls Plug On Prefects,” news, Mar. 7). Good prefects forged relationships among freshmen in their entryway, facilitated the connection between older proctors and young freshmen, and provided an invaluable link between the Yard and the Houses. In addition, the program managed a series of Yard-wide, late-night, alcohol-free activities designed to give...
...respective Houses should be assigned as a big brother or big sister to their entryways. This big sibling would fill the void left by the Prefect program in residential life by organizing social activities like study breaks and brunch outings and by working with the entryway’s proctor to ensure the well being of their shared charges. But unlike the Prefect Program, this big sibling would serve as a conduit for freshmen to the House they in which they would live after their freshman year. Brunches, for example, would take place in their House dining hall, and other...
...cubicle doors of the women’s toilets on the fourth floor of Lamont Library used to bear several anonymous scrawlings, including “I was raped in Greenough,” “my boyfriend rapes me,” and “my proctor raped me,” followed by “mine did too.” When I revisited those bathrooms this year, Harvard’s maintenance services had washed away almost everything, and the doors were adorned with brightly colored posters that advertised an assortment of Peer Counseling...