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...classes elsewhere. But Cal State is also making sure that high schoolers know about the tough policy long before they arrive. The system is spending $9 million to send its professors and students into the 172 high schools that graduate most of Cal State's remedial kids. The visitors tutor pupils in the basics and carefully explain what classes they will need to get in and stay in. With the extra push in high school, not as many Cal State freshmen need remediation: the percentage testing into remedial math fell from 54% in 1997 to 46% last year. (The proportion...
After this initial meeting, Senior Tutor Courtney Lamberth will select four students to serve on the student advisory committee that will conduct the remainder of the search...
...It’s been really, really, really hard in the past to detect evidence of natural selection [in humans],” said co-investigator David E. Reich ’96, who is also a tutor in Lowell House. “We now have an unprecedented detailed picture of variation patterns...
...that explanation sounds a little hollow when you consider that Harvard’s enforcement of city and state codes is spotty at best, and full of double standards. For example, a microwave oven in a dorm suite occupied by a tutor is just as illegal as one in a student room—the law makes no distinction about who’s living there. And presumably it presents the same fire hazard in a tutor suite as in a student room. But the university doesn’t inspect tutor suites. “That would...
...concerned, however, Harvard has the same obligation to inspect tutor suites and undergraduate suites, and Dingman grants that the College’s double standard on inspections doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. “You’re right, if you’re really concerned about safety, you should be treating them the same,” he says. “The policy is under review...