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Another prominent Soviet intellectual last week joined the growing debate on East-West détente. In a 7,000-word article circulated in Moscow and published in West Germany's weekly Die Zeit, Historian Roy Medvedev, 48, best known for his exhaustive exposé of the Stalinist purges...
Students with a 700 on the SAT verbal or a 4 or 5 on the English advanced placement exam currently qualify for middle-level expos couses. Evans said that if any students do receive exemption, they would be in this group, which this year numbers about 530 persons.
Evans said the refocus on writing is necessary to make expos "a writing course, not a discussion group and not a rap session." The central core of curriculum would give freshmen in different sections common ground for discussion, he said.
He said that he "attempted" to limit the size of both lower-and middle-level expos courses this year to 20 and 18, respectively, but added, however, that "15 would be a much better number."
Any decrease in class size would be contingent on the availability of good teachers and additional funding, Evans said. And, although the expos program received additional funding this year, he said that it may not receive another budget increase.