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This week, things look a little brighter. Jewett and other College officials belatedly acted to improve the oppressive environment in Dunster House. Liem (no doubt prodded by these senior officials and by the realization that his tenure as the Master of Dunster was up for review this year) made a public apology for his handling of the affair and announced several positive changes in the way in which tutor hirings will be conducted in the future...
Among the best of these were the changes affecting how long former Dunster students must wait before becoming tutors. Liem agreed to reduce the five year interim he proposed last month to four. He also agreed to exempt current tutors from the restrictions; his previous decision not to do so was viewed by some as an effort to get rid of David Bear '92, a Dunster tutor who has been an outspoken critic of Liem...
...Liem has promised to work with students to revise the tutor hiring system developed by Liem this year. In an effort to stem criticism that a pre-med committee co-chaired by Vincent and William Li (the centers of the controversy last spring) would be biased, Liem announced that he would act as a third chair of the committee. Furthermore, he affirmed his pledge that Dunster Senior Tutor Mark Mueller would review recommendations before they are mailed to medical schools. And while Liem still backs his protege Vince Li, he has announced his intention to remove him from the newly...
These are all good signs, but that is all they are. If Liem, Jewett and the University Administration truly wish to regain the confidence of the students and tutors they let down last spring, they must do the following things...
Place at least one undergraduate member on the new advisory committee and academically diversify the remaining membership. Under the current system, the people whose lives are affected most by tutors have the least say in selecting them. The advisory committee as it now stands is packed with natural scientists (Liem's own background) ill-suited to select tutors with a broad range of interests and backgrounds. In fact, there is already a gross disparity among tutor fields in Dunster. In a house packed with humanities and social science concentrators, English tutors are scarce and science tutors abound...