Bruce Cutler founded the creative writing program at WSU, wrote eleven books of poetry, and seems to have otherwise done quite well for himself as a literature-type. The program is very much creative-writing focused during this time. In 1978-79, a composition survey was sent out to all faculty at the university, as well as all students, where 鈪� of the faculty responded, and only one hundred and change of the students did so. The survey dealt with the inconsistencies of writing expectations between classes, so it鈥檚 really just another example of problems remaining the same throughout history. Different people have different writing standards. There was an event in 1978 called 鈥淚s Language Worth Talking About?鈥�, that featured interdisciplinary discussions of the importance of language, which sounds like something that could be useful in our own times to enhance the image of the department on campus by working to become more interdisciplinary. Lots of correspondence addressed to Ahlberg by department head Kastor, but very little response to Kastor from Ahlberg. Several invites to events here that were never returned.
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