Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Previously, the fate of accused students rested exclusively in the hands of their Senior Tutor or Senior Adviser, who alone presented the student's case before the Board. The Senior Tutor served as both prosecution and defense, so the fairness of the procedure--and consequently the outcome of one's hearing--depended largely upon the sympathy and skill of one's Senior Tutor. Only after the Board had already vote to require a student to withdraw could the student appear in person and present his side in an appeal...
...little later, that society was annihilated. The tutor, Khieu Samphan, turned out to be one of its executioners as a leader of the Khmer Rouge, which disposed of roughly 2 million Cambodians -- nearly a quarter of the country's population -- in just four years...
Someth May distinctly remembers his mathematics tutor at a private school in Cambodia (now Kampuchea). He was a thin man with short gray hair who drove around town on a "rusty old sky-blue Mobylette." It made a terrible noise that his laughing students likened to a "tubercular cough." He always dressed simply, allowed no jokes and demanded punctuality, but he was a popular teacher who never punished his charges. At the end of each lesson, the mild man in sandals generally delivered a brief lament for the corruption of their society...
...some, body building provides exercise for the mind as well as the body. Andrew Sullivan, a Lowell House tutor and author of an article on body building for The New Republic, finds the psychology of the newly-popular Harvard weight rooms fascinating. "They are fundamentally solitary, which is why I think [working out] is the ultimate yuppie 80s activity," Sullivan says. "The weight room is sublimated safe sex, and that's the reason why it's booming...
...Leverett House sophomores voiced similar complaints last February after they were required to withdraw for series of pranks which culminated in a small fire. They said their senior tutor had not represented them and their case fairly to the Ad Board...