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Central to the problem is Richard C. Marius, the director of Expos, who has molded the program significantly during his 15-year tenure. Marius is by all accounts a skillful teacher, an accomplished writer and, as Alumni Association Director John P. Reardon '60 points out, an effective fundraiser...
...administrator, Marius is seriously flawed. Many agree that he has hurt the program, alienated Expos preceptors and mistreated students. Marius refuses to implement changes most Expos teachers agree would strengthen the program, including something as simple as as assigning three papers instead of four...
More importantly, Marius' behavior, both public and private, is egregious and entirely unprofessional. He has verbally abused preceptors in the presence of colleagues and students and fired two preceptors publicly while standing in a hallway. He has publicly referred to students by name and called their writing `drivel.' He has threatened colleagues, in one instance stationing an armed undercover police officer outside a preceptor's classroom to prevent him from teaching...
...lesson Marius took from the Hoy issue, teachers say, was to avoid hiring people who might be threatening to him. One example of this tendency is in Expos 52, an upper-level course Marius helps teach. When award-winning teachers Sven Birkerts and Alexandra Johnson left Expos 52, Marius replaced them with a group of hardworking, if less talented and experienced, teachers...
Sources recalled a recent interview of one candidate, a novelist, for a job with Expos last year. Before the interview, Marius worried aloud about whether the prospective teacher's most recent book was longer than his own last book. During the interview, the director of Expository Writing told the candidate, "If you take out these indexes in your book, my last book is longer...