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Re: Tutoring

Ah yes, athletes... Different rules.

The athletic program supplies unlimited individual tutoring for any
scholarship athlete who wants it. They also outbid us for tutors, but
I guess the tutor earns it.

In the bad old Rice Institute days that Paul mentions, calculus, and
"laboratory science" were absolute requirements for graduation in any
major. Old-timers on the faculty claim that standards were 'adjusted'
for athletes, but at least they had to take the courses. Now rather
few from the major sports appear in science classes.



the problem now is that such a large proportion of HS grads go to college,
that we just can't expect everyone to be able to do caculus and lab
science! bless their hearts. (what's the emoticon for sarcasm?)




Dr. Lois Breur Krause
Department of Geological Sciences
442 Brackett Hall
Clemson University
Clemson SC 29634

teaching chemistry, physics, astronomy and geology to elementary education
majors.

How We Learn and Why We Don't: Student Survival Guide,
available from International Thompson Publishing, ISBN 0324-011970

http://home.earthlink.net/~breurkrause

krause@clemson.edu