Word: hairston
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Black Student Association (BSA) President Curtis Hairston '84 said yesterday that such alumni groups--which he believes will be crucial to Black undergraduates as a source of guidance and funding--will begin to take on added importance next year...
...developmental studies," the pedagogical euphemism for remedial training. At Ohio State University, 42% of this fall's entering freshmen were required to take at least one remedial course in English or math. Ohio's total remediation tab last year: between $10 million and $12 million. Says Elaine Hairston, director of special programs for the Ohio Board of Regents: "Students who need remedial work need specific help. To be done right it requires one-to-one tutoring and low-student-ratio labs...
...crew is wary of modern navigational instruments, preferring to depend on triangles, protractors and geometry lessons of old. The hydraulic steering mechanism, for example, allows Cavalier to be guided by automatic pilot, but no one trusts it for work hi shallow waters. Says Seaman Aaron Hairston, 33: "If you had an accident while you were on autopilot, you'd never be able to look at the water in your bathtub again." To the crew, the white-boxed computer, which winks out positions and readings from information beamed by a satellite, is a dunce. More often than not compass beats...