Word: tutors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lowell House Senior Tutor Christopher Jedry asserts that despite an increase in students with academic or emotional problems, this Reading Period seems milder than some. "There seems to be less tension in the dining hall," he says. "Usually, it's very jangly, a lot of nervous laughter, that sort of thing. But there are certainly more people coming in than the rest of the term--ours is a very seasonal business...
...members of the teaching staff said the situation was not especially serious this year. "Things haven't gotten any better, things haven't gotten any worse," said Vassos Hadzilacos, a head tutor for the course...
...Maybe I could have done in on my own if I had tried," he muses. But when his tutor, Brandois senior Carol Lee asks, "But would you have tried without Upward Bound?" he shakes his head...
Bowen cites a core staff which has been together for over eight years as the primary reason the Harvard program works so successfully. Indeed, many of the former students find themselves returning to Upward Bound to either teach or tutor; Bowen herself was a student and then a tutor with the program...
...went around the room and said, 'How old am I?" says David A. Epstein '83, and the average age was 24. But if they were going to think I was a tutor, that was okay...