. .-..r- . -- Students put skills to work Taking positive steps to help students improve thier writing, the English Department established a writing laboratory for students, under the supervision of Dr. Larry Long. Open 27 hours a week, the lab was staffed by graduate students in English. Any student having writing problems was invited but students in English 103 and juniors and seniors who had not satisfied the English proficiency requirement were urged to attend. Also for students, the English honorary organization Sigma Tau Delta invited into membership English majors with 3.0 averages on 60 hours of work in their rna- ,. , 8 jor . 'Literary party' The group's fall activity was a "literary party" potluck on November 11. Those present participated in literary games designed to be both educational and entertaining. During the 1979 intersession, Dr. Gary Elliott , chairman of the department, directed a 10-day credit study tour of New England, visiting many significant sites of early American literature . In February, at the invitation of Educational Testing Service, Dr. Elliott served on a panel of five in Princeton, New Jersey. The panel English and Journalism WRITING LAB. Cook , Ha mil/e, Long. developed a policy statement on the General CLEP Freshman Composition examination. He served as chairman of the Modern Literature section of the South Central Modern Language Association and as a biblio-
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