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After over five years as Lowell House's senior tutor, Eugene C. McAfee will leave Harvard at the end of this academic year to join the ministry at St. Gile's Cathedral in Edinburgh, Scotland...
...There is no job in the world quite like senior tutoring," McAfee said in an interview. "It has been a privilege and an honor to serve Harvard College in this capacity and Lowell House to which I am devoted." McAfee became acting senior tutor in July 1995, and in 1996 he was reappointed as a permanent senior tutor...
According to Lewis, the graduation rates at Harvard vary little across races, genders or areas of study. Lewis gives credit to Harvard institutions such as the tutor system and Bureau of Study Counsel for providing support for students in general, but not for one race in particular...
What's special about Preuss can be seen in a visit to a ninth-grade geometry class. While teacher Jerry Lederman leads the class from the blackboard, Rachel Ismerio, a 20-year-old psychology major at UCSD, serves as tutor, floating from desk to desk to make sure no one falls behind. And if plotting axis points begins to get dry, the class can turn into a 3-D graphics seminar, with the students using the UCSD supercomputers to create complex designs. Eliana Rucobo, 14, a precocious child of Mexican immigrants, says, "When I first came here, I had doubts...
...choice, former Indiana senator Dan Coats. Coats, who led the charge against gays in the military in 1993, is a favorite of the far-right crowd, but may not be the wonk Bush is looking for. And so Paul Wolfowitz, who did Asia-expert duties for Reagan and tutor duties for W. during the campaign, is back in the running...