Word: kirklanders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kirkland House Senior Tutor Garth O. McCavanasays the transition for the students from thefirst-year proctor system to the house advisingsystems can be jarring. "It's a shock. They are soused to having someone daily holding their hands,"he says...
...Kirkland House, for example, each student isformally interviewed each year by an adviserassigned to them during their sophomore year. InLowell House, by contrast, there are no structuredindividual meetings. Sophomore advisers areencouraged by the house to call their advisees,but this interaction is not formalized, nor is itmonitored by the house office...
...says Kirkland House tries to providecontinuity in students' advising experiences bytrying to keep the same tutors advising the samestudents for all three years, "but there is acertain amount of turnover," he says...
Good policy, but not good politics -- especially not by the lights of labor- union members, who have used the tax subsidy to negotiate some of the most expensive health benefits in America. When union bosses, led by AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland, got wind that the White House was even discussing limits on the tax subsidy for health insurance, they met privately with Mrs. Clinton and warned her that labor's support for health reform -- deemed essential by the Democrats -- was at risk. The First Lady then sent word to her erstwhile reformers: There's no sense even talking about...
Officials warn that if the construction crews fall behind schedule, residents of Eliot, Leverett, Lowell, Kirkland and Winthrop Houses may find themselves without meal service when theyreturn to school next fall...