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Show Here's 'Help' For Sinking Students ft ' ... i' s - . 7 ; J : V r f ' w i A.S. . . ' . . . . There is help for students who are sinking below the passing line in University classes. . 'HELP" IS in the form of the form of the newly-organized ASUU Student Tutoring Society and it's free. Any undergraduate student who needs help in lecture note taking, text book reading and marking, or study techniques for particular subjects is eligible to be aided by the Student tutoring 'Society. ACCORDING TO ASUU President Pres-ident John Pingree, the society functions on a "completely impersonal" im-personal" basis. A student who desires help may come to the ASUU office, 265 Union, and ask the secretary for the name and telephone number of a student who is qualified to help him in a particular subject The secretary will refer to a file of students who are qualified quali-fied and willing to give free tutoring service in University subjects and give the student who desires help the name and telephone number of his prospective prospec-tive toutor. The student then calls his tutor and arranges for a convenient time for help. The tutor Is obligated to help the student for a maximum of one hour a week for three weeks. Additional help may continue if the student and tutor feel it is necessary. All tutoring will end one week before test week. Name sof the students who will act as tutors were submitted sub-mitted by the heads of University Univer-sity departments. Tutors will help no more than two students at one time and will spend a maxmum of two hours a week in actual tutoring. icfor W Student Tutorial Soc.ety. For "Help," just call ASUU offices. Tutoring is available rom one student or night per week, and all requests are kept confident..!. THE ASUU office has the Names of the students who at present and are hPefu' f having approximately two hundred hun-dred next year. f Organized on a trial basis for this spring, the tutoring society has the support of Faculty Council. The society was originally started at the University of Pennsylvania and has spread from there to approximately thirty universities throughout thTeheCpUunSse of the society is not to help a student cram for TteTt, bufto help him under-, stand thoroughly the principles of the subject and to help him learn correct study habits. Pingree urged all University students to take advantage o the service and observed that the tutors are, in his opinion, as campable as graduate students." |