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...Senior Preceptor in Romance Languages MarliesK. Mueller recounted the dreams that two of hercolleagues told her. "One had a nightmare beforeclasses started, that all the chairs are turnedaway from him and he has to start teaching to thebacks of people. Someone else had a dream wherethe students file out one by one and leave theclassroom." And this wasn't even shopping period...
...taught Expos for eight years with Richard Marius. I worked for him as a preceptor and have skied with him. Nonetheless, I shall rise above all that to respond to that hatchet-job of an article--"Expos Out of Control Under Marius...
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...
...Expos program's hopelessly misguided four-year rule, which Marius introduced in 1989 without a grandfather clause, resulted from his desire to quash dissent on the faculty. Other teaching positions at Harvard, including junior faculty appointments, carry term limits, but few are so rigid. Most preceptor positions in foreign language and math programs last eight years; stellar teachers have the opportunity to remain at Harvard much longer, with periodic reviews...
Marius was initially a supporter of Hoy's ideas. But soon after the senior preceptor's arrival, teachers say, Marius switched his position on the value of personal evidence to oppose Hoy. "Autobiograhical writing demeans our profession," Marius wrote recently in an article published in the book Redrawing the Boundaries. "While our colleagues in history, literature and the other liberal arts are asking for writing about the world out there, we often look like a crowd of amateur therapists delivering dime-store psychology to adolescents...