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"I don't think students are served by a four year rule," William C. Rice, a second-year Expos teacher, said in an interview last fall. "I think students are served by people who are vital and deeply engaged in their work. If there's a four-year rule, people...
Abolishing the four-year rule teachers say, is the key to fixing Expos's problems. It would improve morale, make it easier to recruit a more ethnically diverse group of teachers and improve the overall quality of teaching.
But both Sommers and the program's administration have continued to back the rule, for reasons that appear to be more legal than pedagogical. A strict rule that applies to all teachers, sources say, is seen as a way to protect Expos from complaints of discrimination.
Still, it's students who are hurt most by the structure of Expos, and even professors and administrators admit it.
Asked last fall if he could name one way students were served by the four-year limit, Robinson Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures Patrick K. Ford '66, a member of the standing faculty committee on Expos, thought for a moment.