Word: stade
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Yard proctors will carry a greater share of the freshman advising load, F. Skiddy von Stade '38, Dean of Freshmen, announced yesterday...
...Stade explained that the new plan will effectively shift the advising burden from an already overworked faculty onto the shoulders of Yard proctors, most of whom are first and second year graduate students. He expects the change-over will be gradual and he added that he is against having all 30 proctors take on counseling jobs...
...program will also tighten the bonds between freshmen and the Dean's Office. "I feel that most official contact with first-year men is naturally made in the Yard," von Stade said. "The new plan would only serve to formalize this by assigning more freshmen to resident tutors...
Under the present advising setup one faculty member handles nine advisees. The new plan will cut this ratio slightly and reduce the number of faculty advisors, though never eliminating them entirely. "They are much too valuable a part of the system to lose entirely," von Stade explained...
...Stade, who is now accepting proctoring applications for next year, emphasized that he does not want men to apply as advisers unless they are really interested in the work. He also said he prefers applications from men who are more than one year away from their graduate school degree...