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However, some of the students most actively engaged in writing clearly perceive the existence of a definite bias against them among both faculty members and students. Sarah C. Binder '77, an Option III major, said last week "the rest of the department looks down on you as though you're not academic enough, and people say that what you write is not really a thesis...
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...
...people in Option III "do anything?" Francis M. Pipkin, associate dean of the Faculty and chairman of the standing committee on expository writing, said last week that the Faculty is "really afraid of dilettantism" in the creative arts and shies away from teaching them because it is "harder to judge a substantial effort" in the arts than with scholarly work...
That may be the major advantage of Option III, legitimizing and providing time for writers. Those who were spurned by the selection process have not stopped writing. Harris Collingwood '78, who was denied admission to Option III, said last week that being in the major would be "convenient as hell, but not all that necessary...
...There may even be some potential writers who get finished off by the atmosphere. In that way, the large University, for better or worse, is more like the world, which doesn't encourage people to engage in creative activities either."T.S. ELIOT '10. Would he have gotten into Option III...