FRUSTRATED PROCTORS

Having just taken three hour examinations, I am boiling mad over the conduct of some of the men the University hires to proctor exams. I have noticed this not just this spring, but in final and mid-term exams over the last few years. Just because they are administering an academic exercise, this does not mean they have to act as lord and master over students. But many of them do. They are rude; they treat us like so many unruly school children.

I realize Harvard does not have the honor system, but that does not mean proctors have to treat students as if they assume cheating is going to occur. But when they allow but one student at a time into the lavoratory, and even then station another guard within the lavoratory; when they bark instructions like so many top sergeants, they only add, and unnecessarily, to a student's already exam-distraught condition.

A student does not lose his dignity just because he is taking a test. If proctors acted a bit more civil to us, I think it would make their job and ours a lot easier. Name Witheld By Request