He feels more than anything like the resident adviser to this fraternity of Petrel fans.
Our resident adviser asked us to sit around in a circle and introduce ourselves.
She is the resident adviser in the Academy dormitory.
In addition, new faculty members must spend 10 years living in a dormitory as resident advisers.
But she had barely begun unpacking when the dorm's resident adviser appeared and told her to stop.
He worked as a resident adviser, while also working towards a graduate degree.
After the comments about taking a gun to the library, I spoke to the resident adviser, but no one did anything about it.
The university is fighting the idea, saying that resident advisers are students, not workers, and should not have the right to unionize.
Anyway, they said, the resident advisers - students themselves -would not enforce them.
A job as resident adviser in a dormitory will make up at least $3,000, he said, adding: "I was lucky.