Word: slingerlands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...journalism sections were popular and coming as close as any to what I took to be the concern of the expository writing program," Jean Slingerland, assistant director of expository writing before Byker, said. "The sections were not designed to turn out newspapermen. Their goal was to teach people how to put words on paper in concise, lucid prose, with generalizations backed up with proof, and to meet a deadline. These happen to be the same as the values in journalism. Unfortunately, to list the course as journalism, you're apt to give the impression you're teaching about fillers...
...Jean H. Slingerland, associate director of expository writing...
...early December the standing committee, along with Slingerland and Evans, proposed a new structure for the Expos program. They were low on money and overburdened with large classes, so they arrived at an obvious conclusion: cut back the number of students in Expos, and the money will go around better as class sizes shrink. They proposed an exemption from Expos for students with SAT and advanced placement scores above a cutoff level...
...Releasing one-third of the freshman class every year from Expos seemed like an extreme move in a college so heavily oriented toward writing skills. After a series of discussions and meetings with the Expos people over a period of four months, the council was admanatly against the proposal. Slingerland talked to John B. Fox Jr. '59, Rosovsky's assistant, and found out that Expos classes were not actually as large as she had indicated to the council. The next week, after an emotional meeting with Rosovsky, she resigned from her post...
...hard to say whether Slingerland resigned out of pride or because she thought the move would accomplish something, but most council members and U Hall observers seemed to regard it as an unusual exercise in futility. After the storm blew over, the council gave Expos a little more money and sent the office a nice conciliatory note--and next year, all freshmen will take Expos, under a new standardized curriculum. The whole affair is harldy likely to make anyone think that stormy resignations get things done at Harvard...