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Council members argued that often the group tutorial is, in fact, a preferable format to the "one-to-one, faculty-student ratio" which Bowersock's report cited as the 'ideal goal" of his reforms. In particular, council members objected to the report's implication that group tutorials only rate "second-best...
...council requested on Wednesday that Bowersock revise his goals to take into account the value of group tutorials under certain circumstances...
Elizabeth McKinsey, head tutor of the English Department, agreed with the council's defense of group tutorials yesterday, and pointed out that sophomore tutorials are most valuable when several students participate. Sophomore tutorials serve as an introduction for students to basic concepts in their concentration, she said. It is not until the junior year, as students begin to narrow their academic vision to more particular aspects of their study, that an individual tutorial becomes desirable, she added...
McKinsey also observed that holding group tutorials is one way for fellow concentrators to become acquainted, and even more important, to learn from each other. "The sophomore tutorial is the base on which you can build your intellectual camaraderie for the rest of your academic career," she added...
...administrators, including Dean Fox and Dean Rosovsky, created a student-faculty committee whose charge is to develop a University policy on boycotts. Yet despite Calkins' definitive statement of policy in his letter to Stone, the co-ordinator of the committee, Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, said the group was nowhere near any decision...