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I taught Expos for eight years with Richard Marius. I worked for him as a preceptor and have skied with him. Nonetheless, I shall rise above all that to respond to that hatchet-job of an article--"Expos Out of Control Under Marius."
When they come to Expos, this beleaguered bunch finds a place that seems great. The pay is not bad, the teaching load allows time to write, and best of all are the high octane undergraduates. But teachers also find a program that has a very clear vision of its task...
One of the former Expos teachers complained in the article that she could not teach "free writing and free expression," whatever that is. I wonder how far an undergraduate would get with "free writing" in an economics or history thesis? Or in a subsequent job?
Some of the teachers who stay become increasingly resentful at having to leave. If Harvard were a totem pole, Expos faculty would be on the part that is under the ground, but it is still the Harvard totem pole. It's all downhill from here. The thought of having to...
I graded my last Expos paper three years ago, and since then the program has no doubt gone all to hell. I predicted as much. Reading about the grousing reminds me of an unhappy circus employee whose job was sweeping up after the elephants. One day he was bitterly complaining...