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Harvard likes to operate quietly and settle its fights in the family, without any public outcry. So it was quite a surprise this week when Jean H. Slingerland, assistant director of Expository Writing, said she may resign because of the Faculty Council's apparently routine rejection of a proposed change in the Expos program...
...proposal--which Slingerland helped Gwynne B. Evans, director of Expository Writing, to draft--would have released about one-third of next year's freshman class from its Expos requirement in an effort to decrease Expos class sizes without increasing the department's budget...
...Evans and Slingerland put together their proposal assuming they had to stay within the present Expos budget, about $160,000 a year, and never asked the council for a budget increase--although the council and Dean Rosovsky are, sources said, willing to consider a raise in Expos funding...
...council rejected the plan, and Slingerland talked about resigning--but the fight over the Expos plan is probably best viewed as a carryover from the confused transitions of last year, not a sign of future battles within the Faculty...
...could make a difference to the kind of thinking and expression that will take place through the student's next three years at Harvard and ultimately over the rest of his life. To throw John Stuart Mill at our liberal educators seems ironic, but if the Faculty Council approves Slingerland's proposal without considering its effects, it will illustrate Mill's point that originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel...