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Andrew K. Mandel '00, a Crimson editor, says he has seen the negative effects of the on-line service's popularity...
...Mandel works in a tutoring program for three hours a week which takes place over AOL. The programs allows children to come to "chat rooms" and ask questions of the tutors on duty. One tutor goes into the room to help guide the student in solving the problem...
Because Harvard has a special server through which students can log on to AOL, Mandel says he personally has not experienced busy signals getting on-line...
...Those students who can get on are on for a very long time," Mandel says. "It's much more hectic to weed out who actually has a problem and who's there just to cause problems...
...Mandel says the program is attempting to alleviate the problem by limiting the number of students who can log on to AOL at the same time...