Word: marius
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Marius may be gone, but the way in which he structured the program remains...
...take student concern about Harvard's Expository Writing program. Proclaimed an integral and vital part of each undergraduate's education, Expos was, until recently, a department in turmoil--the victim of an intolerant and short-tempered director, Richard C. Marius, who verbally abused students and teachers on a regular basis...
...Marius resigned earlier this year after a Crimson investigation revealed widespread dissatisfaction with his leadership style among department members. In response, the University hired his longtime assistant, Nancy Sommers, to replace him, after a brief sham of a search for a successor that initially featured a two-week deadline for applications and virtually no advertisements...
Sommers is certainly a qualified administrator and instructor. But after all the havoc wreaked by Marius, students deserved a real search for the best possible successor...
...After all the recent controversy surrounding the Expository Writing program--culminating in the December resignation of its embattled director, Richard C. Marius--we would expect Harvard administrators search for Marius' replacement...