Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rivals Humbled. ABC, which had risked $6 million on the production starring LeVar Burton as Kunta Kinte, Lou Gossett as his slave tutor, and a clutch of familiar TV veterans, humbled its network rivals in a week-long domination of the Nielsen ratings. Had ABC gambled even more by delaying the show until the start of the so-called sweep week on Jan. 31, the triumph would have been even sweeter. During those periods, ratings services measure the audiences of local stations, and the networks often air their strongest shows then to boost affiliate ad rates...
...offer of only part-time employment to Gallagher might also represent "an attempt to downgrade her status" in response to a grievance Gallagher filed against the University with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) last spring, William F. Kuntz, a third-year law student and Eliot House resident tutor who acted as Gallagher's agent at the MESD hearing, said yesterday...
...guest who had previously appeared before the council as a witness for the plan disagreed. Laura G. Fisher, senior tutor in Eliot House, called the council's approval a "sound decision," and refused to comment further...
...entered their home turf," Gordon Atkinson '77, who coordinated the tutoring program said, "They own the place and we had to prove ourselves. Then they accepted us and really related to us." Most tutors reported establishing good relationships with their tutees. "I have rapport with both my kids," Robert Lindsey '78 said. "There's no resentment of me because I'm a Harvard kid, or because I'm white." Roxbury students interviewed seemed to agree. "It was cool," Leroy Adair said. "My tutor let me read some poetry. He didn't try to teach me nothing I didn't want...
However, some tutors, especially the reading tutors, assigned to students who did not volunteer for help said there is a severe tutee absentee problem. Only half the reading tutees attended the twice-weekly sessions regularly. Reading tutors explained that their kids were turned off to reading at an early age. One tutor, Valerie Wright '77, said many of the kids have part-time jobs and were not oriented towards school work...