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...Resident tutor Stuart E. Schechter, who had his laundry basket taken, wrote in an e-mail that he felt “everyone in Leverett will be keeping a somewhat more watchful eye on others using the laundry room. Perhaps this will add a little paranoia to the atmosphere...
Last week, Lowell House Senior Tutor Marshall T. Poe announced his decision to resign at the end of this academic year. Poe cited a disagreement between himself and Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 over the appropriate role of the Allston Burr Senior Tutor in the House community. Poe said he believed that a senior tutor should be first and foremost involved in student life as an advisor and counselor, whereas the College saw the job as primarily administrative. With Poe’s resignation and the recent appointment of five new senior tutors...
...official guide “Information for Faculty Offering Instruction in Arts and Sciences,” the University specifies that each senior tutor is “directly responsible for the academic and personal welfare of undergraduates.” These two responsibilities are not mutually exclusive; in fact, they go hand-in-hand. Each senior tutor is an assistant dean of the College, and is thus the primary advisor for students on academic issues. When students add or drop courses, change concentrations, experience difficulty with a professor or take leaves of absence, the senior tutor must advise them...
These important administrative responsibilities are complemented by the fact that the senior tutor resides in the House. This close proximity to students mandates personal interaction. Academic performance is closely tied with a person’s well-being, and so it naturally makes sense that senior tutors interact with the students they serve. In order to interact meaningfully with students in a more informal context, senior tutors must be active in the House community—playing intramural sports, helping to organize an opera, performing in a band. This everyday involvement not only contributes to House community; for those students...
Currier House’s new senior tutor, Associate Professor of Anthropology Carole Mandryk, has served as an archeology tutor in the anthropology department and as curator of North American archeology at the Peabody Museum...