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...thought you could screw up a final? Listen to Diana Whitty, the official in the registrar's office who supervises the administration of exams. "The most terrible things can happen," she says. "Once a Buildings and Grounds crew turned off all the water in Memorial Hall and started tearing apart the mens room--they forgot an exam was going on that...
Another time, Whitty recalls, the official who was supposed to unlock Mem Hall in the morning never showed up. Following registrar's office procedure, all the professors and proctors who were administering exams that morning had arrived at Mem Hall to pick up their tests and blue books. "We didn't have the key," says Whitty, "the man with the key wasn't turning up, and the security guard didn't have the key." She shrugs...
Margaret F. Law, the Faculty's registrar, was in her office that morning and rushed over to Mem Hall when she heard of the crisis. "I was literally going to break down the door," she recalls. "Then I saw a physics student climbing up one of the walls I knew it was a physics student--I used to teach physics. He got into one of the tower rooms, climbed down, and opened up the door from the inside." The police department gave Law a calf later in the week to ask the name of the student who broke into...
...least one disabled freshman has had to do just that every time she wanted to go to a class this year. The student requested that the class be moved, but Registrar Margaret E. Law says that the faculty member involved refused to move the class to the room her office had found. Regulations require Universities receiving Federal funds to guarantee equal access to education to disabled students--a requirement that includes moving rooms when necessary. But the official Harvard policy is not couched in the absolutes of the Federal rules. Administrators say they will "make every effort" to accommodate students...
About 1200 freshmen flocked to the Registrar's office yesterday to submit field of concentration information sheets detailing their plans of study for the next three years...