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Essay: "Early Days" by Daniel Lynch
" When I came to LaGuardia in 1974, the English area was part of a mega department called Language and Culture. Our founder, Joseph Shenker thought it best to make everything bureaucratic at LaGuardia slightly awry—the grades were Excellent, Good, Pass and No Credit, Evening Classes were Extended Day and departments didn’t fit traditional subject-based models. He wanted to mark clearly that we were different from every other college. Experimentation was highly regarded, funded and rewarded."
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