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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
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  6. Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 10:47:47 +0000
  7. Sender:       "Megabyte University (Computers & Writing)" <MBU-L@TTUVM1.BITNET>
  8. From:         rmcdonell%ucsd.edu@SDSC.BITNET
  9. Subject:      Re: (Fwd: *C&CD*) Do colleges require only first-year writing? (8)
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  12.   One may
  13. >argue that students who attend the ivies are better prepared (and of course
  14. >they are) than the generally working class students--the ones who go to
  15. >the cheaper schools, but I wonder if another social imperative is at
  16. >work here?
  17. >Irv
  18.  
  19. "Better prepared for whose what?" might be another way to ask the question
  20. and open the issue of the "social imperative" to the question of "Whose?"
  21. as well.
  22.  
  23. robt
  24.  
  25. rmcdonell@ucsd.edu
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