Editor:

There is an unbridled party going on right now in Bakersfield College’s Tutoring Center located upstairs in the Student Services building.

For years, rules have been broken by both the faculty member and tutorial coordinator overseeing the tutoring program at BC. For example, the no-eating rule has been broken every day religiously by the tutorial coordinator.

Every form of food item has been eaten in the Tutoring Center by the tutorial coordinator and a coterie of her favorite student tutors every semester. The tutorial coordinator and her student tutor friends do it in full view of all the student tutees and lower-ranking student tutors, although the tutorial coordinator is supposed to be setting an example to the students there that such behavior is not tolerated.

Strangely, while the tutorial coordinator enjoys foods and conversation with her favorites, the least-favored student tutors seem to be doing the majority of the work there.

Furthermore, there must be a “no-talking” rule in the Tutoring Center that is being ignored.

I cannot estimate how many times, while studying, that I have had to plug my ears with my fingers to shut out the cacophony that no authority in the Tutoring Center is trying to curtail, and the discords emanate chiefly from the tutorial coordinator’s desk.

Even more infuriating is the double standard concerning the tardiness rule. For example, the tutorial coordinator has permitted her part-time coordinator to show up an hour and half late each day without penalty. The full-time coordinator allows this behavior while penalizing tutees for coming in 15 minutes late.

Katherine Jane White

BC student