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Show Tutor Society Helps Students Improve Study Habits it and find a tutor. The name of the tutor will be sent to the student. stu-dent. You can apply for a tutor anythime except the last two weeks of the quarter. "Arrangements for time, place and frequency of meeting are left to the tutor and tutoree," Inge-bretsen Inge-bretsen said. What To Expect What help can students expect from a tutor? He is a student too, so his abilities are limited. Likewise, Like-wise, the time he can spend with students is also limited. The purpose of the student tutor is not to run a cram course. He is there to help, but the main purpose of tutoring is to help improve study habits and generally improve a student's education. Ingebretsen said no one should feel embarrassed about asking for a tutor. "We've had people in the society who have been tutorees one quarter and tutors the next." How successful is the tutor program? pro-gram? A survey taken last spring of 85 tutorees showed that the majority ma-jority considered the service very helpful, and rated the tutors as being either excellent or well prepared pre-pared and their attitude as cordial. The Society has no dead weight in it. Its governing body, the Executive Ex-ecutive Committee, are all tutors themselves. By FRANK ERICKSON Chrcnicle Feature Assistant Back in year 1, caveman scholar Glug took Chem 21 and got an "A." In year 2, Glug's friend Oog took 21 and was failing it until Glug said, "Hey man, I can help you with that." Glug did and Oog passed, and tutoring was born. Tutoring is a good way to get help in a class. You call up a friend who knows something about the subject you're failing, and he comes over and helps you, and maybe you learn enough to pass. What To Do? But what if you don't have a friend who knows anything about the subject you're failing? What do you do? On this campus you can go to the Student Tutor Society. The Society is a service organization organ-ization which offers free private instruction to students encountering encounter-ing difficulty in their school work. The tutoring is usually done on a person-to-person basis. Sometimes group tutoring is done, also. The Society is made up of two kinds of people; tutors and tutorees. The tutors are picked from the best students at the University. There are presently about 70 volunteers who contributed their time and energy for no monetary reward. Tutor Requirements "To become a tutor, a student must have a 3.0 or better overall grade point average and have received re-ceived a 'B' or better in courses he plans to tutor," said Robert Ingebretsen of the Society Execu-' Execu-' tive Committee. "If a student is particularly well versed in a subject, sub-ject, he may tutor with faculty approval ap-proval even if his overall is lower than 3.0." The society needs more tutors. "We have 70 tutors and over 200 tutorees," Ingebretsen said. All qualified students are encouraged to apply to become tutors. Rewarding Experience "While we receive no money, tutoring is still very rewarding," Ingebretsen said. "It's a wonderful experience to know you're helping somebody and a nice feeling to be performing a service. It is also an excellent way to review." He added that students considering consider-ing becoming teachers could benefit bene-fit from the experience gained in tutoring, since tutoring is very much like teaching. A tutor is required to give only two hours a week, one hour to each of two pupils. "Whether he gives any more than this is up to him," Ingebretsen added, "and often times tutors do." To become a tutor, you need only meet the qualifications and apply in the Student Activities Center Cen-ter (Union 318). Good Representation "We have people from just about every department on campus, so students having trouble in any subject are invited to apply for a tutor," Ingebretsen said. Last quarter, tutors were found for nearly all of the 200 students who asked for them. "Sometimes a student will request help in a class about three people a year take," Ingebretsen added, "and in that case we may not be able to find a tutor for him." Tutors are most often requested in lower division math, chemistry and physics. To get a tuor, students should go to the Activities Center and get an application card. It asks for name, address and the class one needs help in, and the society will process |