English Students To Boycott Exam

As many as 200 English concentrators may boycott the junior generals scheduled for next Tuesday.

Mary Littlefield '71 and Ernie Brooks '71-organizers of the boycott-said yesterday that because of recent changes in the exam. anywhere from 80-200 students may refuse to take it. If less than 80 students agree to the boycott, it will continue on an individual basis.

Dissatisfaction centers around what appear to be "arbitrary exemptions" set up for each of the three questions on the exam.

Elimination Game

One question is eliminated for students who have taken a half-coure on Milton (English 131) or a full course on Chaucer (English 115). At the same time tutorials of one or two semesters studying the same authors do not qualify students for exemption.

A similar policy affects exam questions on Shakespeare and the Bible. Any full course on Shakespeare or a course on the Bible (English 135) exempts a student from that particular question. Tutorials are not counted.

This examination policy may be changed by the English Committee on Undergraduate Curriculum. But according to Robert J. Kiely, professor of English and chairman of the committee, the present junior generals policy will not be taken up until later this Spring.