Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time in June, 1964, a little bedraggled from a 24-hour bus trip from Nairobi to Dar es Salaam and very curious about what it would be like to teach there. A man in a Volkswagen, who turned out to be a West German trade unionist and Kivukoni's tutor of industrial relations, spotted me as the new tutor of sociology and gave me a lift to the college...
...tutor in sociology I had little to offer besides a framework of generalizations and some new vocabularly. I could talk about the difficulties of changing traditional beliefs, but the students could talk about trying to run an anti-bilharsia campaign. I could talk about urbanization, but the students could talk about what it is like to move into the city and live in the same house with people from different tribes and religions...
...Tutors could choose whether their students would study specialized topics for one or two terms. If the tutor decides on one term, he would devote the other to a modified survey of great historians, similar to the present sophomore tutorial. If he decides on two terms, the two periods chosen would have to be from different areas of the six that are offered...
Along with his duties as assistant dean and tutor in Leverett, Epps is a man of surprisingly diversified extra-curricular interests, many of which involve a large number of Negro students. Advisor to the Association of Afro and Afro-American Students, Epps feels that it provides a forum for discussion between African and American Negroes where they can examine the "useful aspects of negritude." Primarily, he says, it helps form a Negro identity, "but I do not think that the forum should exclude whites who are interested in the same issues...
...There is too much grade grubbing and not enough learning in the present system," Rustam Z. Kothavala, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Lowell House, agreed. Kothavala, one of the three Faculty members on the HPC, said that he was "fully in favor of the proposal," and thought that the combination of the pass-fail option with the fifth course would ensure that "people don't use it for roulette...