Word: marius
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Perhaps most symptomatic of the confrontationalattitude that emerged in Expos is the story ofDavid Heller. During the first week of March 1989,Heller, a first-year teacher in the program,abruptly resigned after a mix-up over Marius'scheduled visit to his class. Marius went to thewrong room, and when Heller returned to the Exposoffice, witnesses say, then-program administratorJulia A. Hendrix erupted at the teacher with noapparent provocation...
...seemed like a minor disagreement at first.Shortly after the incident, however, Marius wroteHeller a letter accusing the teacher of verballyattacking Hendrix. Heller decided to resign afterreceiving the letter. Marius, who never discussedthe incident with Heller, now says Heller wasgrowing "emotionally unstable" at the time...
More disturbing than the decisions madeby the Expos administration, teachers say, wasUniversity Hall's unwillingness to do anythingabout it. The faculty committee, they note, backedMarius' move to the four-year rule in an effort toreestablish administrative control over Expos. Andboth of Marius' bosses in the last six years--Deanfor Undergraduate Education Lawrence Buell andBuell's predecessor David Pilbeam--are aware ofMarius's problems in dealing with employees,sources...
...nearly all matters, Pilbeam and otherspublicly deferred to Marius and Sommers. Two yearsago, after proposing to raise the four-year limitto five or six years, Pilbeam backed down afterMarius sent him a letter opposing the change...
Sources familiar with the Sommers-Mariusrelationship say she has attempted to take awaysome control from Marius, and in some cases hasserved, in the words of one teacher, "as a humanshield" between him and the staff. In someinstances, Sommers has convinced Marius toapologize to staff members he has slighted,sources...