October 02, 1987 (vol. 98, iss. 17) • Page Image 3
…The Michigan Daily-Friday, October 2, 1987- Page 3 ECB placement meets with 'mid react ioq Friends mourn death of University student By DAVID SCHWARTZ Dan Char, a first-year LSA Hon- ors student…
… and went to sleep." Hughes complained that he doesn't understand why the English Composition Board placed him at the lowest of three levels the board can place a student. He shares a con- fusion common…
… to many new Uni- versity students about how the board makes its decisions. The ECB's assistant director, Liz Hamp-Lyon, explained that faculty and "experienced teaching assistants" on the board base a…
… student's place- ment solely on essays students write during orientation. From these, boardmembers channel students into either tutorial English or first-year introductory English, or exempt them from the…
… essay)," she said. Dan Levine, a first-year Physical Education student, dislikes the ECB's methods. "I think the 50 minutes they give you to work on it is not enough time for someone to develop a paper…


