"I started stammering about how I would sit them down and talk about the responsibilities of drinking," he says.
But his interviewer told him that the correct response would be to talk to the students long enough to memorize their faces in case they refused to give their names.
"Do you think you could do that?" his interviewer asked.
Sivak was on the verge of tears.
"At the time, I was fairly distraught," he says.
Why challenge inexperienced undergraduates with such detailed questions? Queen says that proctors often encounter students breaking the rules, and they need to be prepared to deal with offenders.
Sivak admits that the difficulty of the interview was justified in part by the responsibility of the job. He was not accepted but was later given a position the following summer.
Eli L. Diamond '01 also says that the interviews were excessively unpleasant.
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