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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...
...battle over personal evidence soon became a war of personalities, and sources say that for most of the past academic year, Hoy and Marius weren't talking to one another. Hoy says the program needs to get teachers more involved in decision making. "I think it requires a change of attitude at the top of the program about who is to be included in the evolution of the program," he says...
...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...