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...Guns for Hire...
...Each year nearly 400 applicants vie for a handful of openings in Expos, and we are able to hire competitively from an applicant pool that boasts both active professional writers with extensive publication credits and scholars with J.D.s and Ph.D.s in literary studies, history, biological and cultural anthropology, and philosophy. Our preceptors have their degrees from the best graduate programs in the country—Harvard, Yale, Princeton, the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, the University of California-Berkeley, and the University of Pennsylvania, to name just a few. They come to Expos with a compelling combination...
...surely also incumbent upon Expos to hire from a wider variety of academic fields. Preceptors would be able to draw from one another’s disciplinary knowledge and make the program even more responsive to our students’ wide-ranging interests and to professors’ expectations of writing in fields that are not currently represented in our faculty appointments...
...Cladwell, who is the CEO, founder, and president of Urine Good Company, or UGC as it’s known for short.RR: What does UGC produce?DC: UGC’s product is toilet facilities, which they regulate extensively and force people to pay to use.RR: Should Harvard hire UGC?DC: Well, it depends how serious we are about water conservation. RR: Is there a bathroom on campus you think needs to be improved?DC: I think there need to be more bathrooms in Adams House, personally. There’s, like, one bathroom I’ve seen here.RR...
...would require the scrapping of the preceptor model. Most preceptors’ salaries have remained stagnant—a symptom of tightened spending within the program’s budget—meaning preceptor quality has waned. Reducing the number of students taking Expos would allow Expository Writing to hire fewer, better teachers (for instance, there are only 109 students enrolled in Expos 10). Placing only this small group of students with demonstrated writing need under the tutelage of trained writing professionals would bring every student at Harvard up to a standard writing level.The preceptors for expository writing would then...