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...petition was first organized by a group of 10 undergraduates led by Marc R. Talusan '97 in the days following the department's general exam, which the students found "biased and obsolete," he said...
Lecturer in English Richard C. Marius echoed Engell's enthusiasm for change in the department, going so far as to state that changing the general exam is "a good idea...
Talusan originally voiced his complaints during the department's general exam. Instead of answering the assigned questions, he wrote a long essay chronicling the essay's flaws...
...learned, how you've studied and depth of knowledge is what the generals are supposed to test--but they don't," Talusan said. "They're severely biased.... The department makes you feel that there is leeway in the exam, but I think that leeway is a fallacy. It's open-ended in a very, very limited way--they definitely want you to know a set of texts...
...school applicants by Linda Wightman of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro illustrates both the challenge of recruiting minorities and the payoff. She found that of the 3,485 blacks accepted by law schools in 1991, just 687 would have been admitted only on the basis of board exams and grades. Yet these same minority students had graduation and bar-exam pass rates similar to whites'--and they had an incalculable value to the black community, as both professionals and role models...