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...have to be canceled because the LRC cannot afford to lose money. According to a survey conducted at the end of the ’08-’09 academic year, 105 of the 379 students who signed up to use Rosetta Stone logged in more than one hour per week. Doyle said that primary use for the program seemed to stem from graduate students who needed to refresh their memories in order to prepare for their Ph.D foreign language exams. Undergraduates said they were interested in using Rosetta Stone to practice languages for travel. Marino F. Auffant...
...turn of the millennium, while most New Yorkers were partying or panicking about Y2K and its accompanying Armageddon, 150 coked-out people in orange jumpsuits came tumbling out of a Manhattan warehouse, breathing fresh air for the first time in months. These individuals were living their last hours under 24-hour surveillance in an underground bunker—complete with shooting range, communal showers, and bedroom cubicles. Behind this “social experiment”—entitled “Quiet: We Live in Public”—was internet mogul Josh Harris, who lived...
...gone up in more than a decade, raising tutors’ prices seems a sensible move. Therefore, we support the BSC’s decision to save money in a way that will not diminish the services it provides by upping its tuition rates from $4 to $7 per hour (while the rate increases to $14 per hour after the first 10 hours, apparently fewer than a quarter of tutoring requests fall into this category). Critical to our support of the increase, however, is the continued role of the Financial Aid Office, which will continue to assist students in need...
Even with the small increase, BSC tutoring rates will remain quite reasonable. Fees of $7 per hour would be a steal in commercial tutoring. The service will retain affordable prices while at the same time preserving its financial solvency and avoiding the need for cutbacks...
However, the BCS could do more to raise its profile and spread awareness of this service as an option for struggling students. With tutoring costing up to hundreds of dollars per hour outside Harvard, students should consider using BSC’s tutoring service more, even after the price hike. We also recognize the variety of free resources available to students—teaching fellows, professors, and friends can all provide help to students...