Word: baumel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many of the students selected for Option III also believe writing courses should be more widely available. Judy Baumel '77, an Option III major, said last week "everyone should be allowed the exposure, though I suspect you wouldn't produce too many good writers...
...Baumel also feels "looked down upon" by other English professors. She said that the people in Option III are "just as good, and I think better, academics than others in the English Department." She related a story about a fellow English major who, upon meeting her and learning she was in Option III, immediately launched into a "tirade about how we shouldn't graduate because we don't do anything...
...example, when a scientist wants to take an art course," says Northwestern's Baker, who thinks a student should be able to broaden his horizons without risking poor grades in subjects in which he has interest but perhaps little aptitude. In New York, City University Professor Philip Baumel goes even farther. "Most students usually opt for pass/fail for the right reasons," he insists. But Baumel, too, has noted a trend away from the new system: "There's a move now to say, 'Let's do it the conventional way.' " Asked to grade the system...