STUDENTS TUTOR STUDENTS

More than fifty Dartmouth students shift to teaching roles for two or three afternoon hours each week in the studentinitiated and operated Valley Tutorial Program, an effort under Dartmouth Christian Union auspices to stimulate slow and average students and to encourage better qualified students to advanced study.

The program, which was formally opened at Hartford (Vt.) High School on February 13, offers personal tutoring aid in French, Latin, English, history, algebra, geometry, biology, and chemistry. Hartford High School teachers select the students in need of tutoring. The DCU selects the tutor from the 120 Dartmouth undergraduates who have registered to give this service.

Co-directors of the program are Richard A. Kernochan '66 of Riverside, Conn., and Richard A. Joseph '65 of Brooklyn. The program works on a one- to-one basis, and although 110 Hartford pupils have applied for aid, the coordinators have not been able to use all the Dartmouth volunteers as yet because of time and space limitations. However, Kernochan and Joseph hope to expand the program to other Upper Valley schools.

In another DCU-sponsored move, fifteen undergraduates traveled to Washington, D. C., on February 6 for appointments with Senators and Congressmen from their home states to show support for the civil rights bill. L. Daniel Thompson '65 of Seymour, Conn., chairman of the DCU's Political Action Committee, was the coordinator.