A Misleading Article?

To the Editors of The Crimson:

As representatives of the graduate students in the English Department, we wish to address the article on the student survey in last Saturday's issue of the Crimson (12/4/82). A number of the students who designed, compiled, and responded to the survey feel that the account in the Crimson was misleading. The survey gathered and disseminated students' opinions on the English department as a whole and on its academic policies. Personal remarks on individual faculty members such as those featured in the second part of the Crimson article were not solicited; nor were the remarks in question representative of student opinion as reflected in the results of the survey. We regret that an article on the survey was used as a vehicle to air private opinions. Alan Richardson   The Graduate Liaison Committee   of the English Department