Word: spiel
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Give me your pro-Avril spiel...
...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 his admonitions...
...that overall, proctor warnings have proven to be effective, as many students have approached him to discuss ways to handle harassment by the BCC. For this reason, he stresses the importance of healthy and trusting student-proctor relationships. He has even had ambitious students, after hearing the Sunday night spiel, actively looking for BCC recruiters on campus in order to turn them...
...book’s conclusion breaks into an all-too-familiar spiel about the uncertainty of the future of news. The reader is left with nothing more than the repetitive claim that good journalism is crucial to a well-functioning democracy. In shirking blame, the book assigns responsibility to the public: “As long as they [the readers and viewers] create a market for good journalism, there will be good journalism.” Certainly, The News About the News raises important issues about the state of public media in our country, but it fails to resolve them...
...lessons are more complex than Griffin lets on. “He has this ritual,” Clancy explains. “First he gives you this spiel. Whenever you get attacked, like if someone is approaching the van, the first priority is to throw the keys in the bushes and run. Protect the van.” According to the Hartford insurance company, which oversees the van training, Griffin should take his charges on a six-hour spin in Cambridge. But Griffin mixes it up with other routes. “The [Harvard] insurance office wants...