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None of these hurdles have deterred PBH Education Committee Co-Chairman Elena Patterson '88, who tutors at Rindge. In four years, the senior says she has tutored about 20 students in math and science...
...students are having problems, they want to show up to the sessions," Patterson says. Patterson says that she does not generally have problems establishing a rapport with the students, perhaps because she concentrates on a tangible subject matter. "If you get the answer right, that establishes trust," she says...
Explaining her durable commitment to tutoring, Patterson says, "I love math and science, and I deplore the fact that others don't. That is mostly because it is poorly taught, and I can try to do something about...
...addition, Patterson says she plays a special role for female students. "I prefer to work with girls because I think they need special encouragement," she says. "It is important for them to see a role model who has had success in these `impossible' math and science courses and can show them that they...
...Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Fla., brought the two sides together to discuss press credibility. There were a few sharp words. Miffed at the cracks about TV entertainment, Don Hewitt, producer of CBS's 60 Minutes, wondered about "all that junk"--advice columns, features, horoscopes--in newspapers. Eugene Patterson, a veteran newspaper editor who is chairman of the institute, phrased the charge against the tube a little differently from Black: through television, "the public got a look at us and didn't like what it saw." Television feeds egos; in some, said Patterson, it produces "attack journalism--let the public...