Acting Director Will Instigate Changes in Expository Writing

The new director of Expository Writing announced yesterday a series of administrative changes which she characterized as "long overdue, especially for a Department of this size."

Jean H. Slingerland, acting director of Expository Writing, will succeed Roger Rosenblatt, assistant professor of English, in September 1973 as the head of the largest department in the University.

As part of the administrative changes, Slingerland said that all high school seniors accepted to the Class of '77 will receive a pamphlet describing Expository Writing.

Early Registration

The incoming freshmen will be required to section for Expository writing during registration September 17, instead of one week after the start of classes as was previously done.

Slingerland said that this early sectioning will add one more week to the Expos classes, eliminate the "sardine packing" of students in Memorial Hall for the previously special Expos registration and force the students to arrange their schedules around Expos.

Slingerland also said she hopes to improve from last year's ratio of 25 students to 1 instructor to a minimum of 20 to 1 and an ideal ratio of 15 to 1. Change will require approximately ten additional sectionmen.

To cope with special writing problems there will be two tutorial sections in addition to programs offered by the Bureau of Study Counsel. The Expos tutorials will consist of one to one meetings of tutors and student to help alleviate problems or difficulties in writing.

Slingerland said she regards the program as the most important course in the University, since it teaches skills that can determine the outcome of the next three years.

"Expos can possibly be the most traumatic course in the University and the hardest to teach," Slingerland said.