Word: option
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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...
Steven C. Fenichell '77, an English major in Option III, said last week that financial reasons are cited for limiting English C and Option III, but he thinks the department is "interested in making the process selective for its own sake...
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...