Word: exposers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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1. If Expos. is to be looked on as Remedial Writing, then I can think of several students I've had who should certainly be released from it. But I do agree that most freshmen could profit from a good course in writing. SAT scores are no guarantee at all...
2. But Expos. now--top-heavy with Directors, Assistant Directors, Head and Assistant Head Sectionmen--tries to operate on the hysterical notion that a half-year course in Writing has got to Do The Job, or else. For apparently the course was severely scrutinized last year when senior faculty complained...
An alternative to putting the screws to Expos. might better be for the senior faculty to change the nature of its writing requirements overall: to de-emphasize those longish, woolly "Term Papers" (written mostly all in heap during what we call Reading Period) and assign shorter, more frequent, experimental writing...
3. To make it more possible than it now is for section people in Expos. to reproduce student writing for classroom discussion, it might be better to eliminate one or two bureaucrats at the top in any case and hire more secretaries, or else use the money now spent on...
4. It was curious to note Prof. Evans mincing over treating students "mathematically". When the proposal for re-structuring Expos. for next year (the proposal to standardize the so-called "lower level" sections) was made, the people who actually do the teaching were not consulted or considered, "mathematically" or otherwise...