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Tutors Cautiously Play Two Roles: Parent and Friend

On the Record

Although House masters and resident tutors help foster House community and enforce rules, they do not do the actual disciplining.

That job is reserved for the senior tutor.

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Senior tutors say they treat incidents on a case to case basis--they might write a letter of warning from the House which goes in the student's file, or arrange an off-the-record discussion.

"Part of the job is talking to a student that's in trouble and not judging them" says Dunster House Senior Tutor John T. O'Keefe.

Harvard University Police officers and House security guards, while having a large presence in the House, serve to provide information and keep the students safe.

The tutors say the officers play no role in discipline.

"The police are only concerned with safety," McAfee says. "Once they've made sure everything is safe, they turn it over to the senior tutor and College, and only supply information.

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