Marvin Kay
| School: | University of Arkansas |
| Department: | Anthropology |
| Location: | Fayetteville, AR |
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Marvin was in charge of our field school. He allowed several students with medical conditions, one with a heart condition, another with a metabolism issue etc. Anyway he let them attend the field school, even thoughthey were physically incapable of performing the duties required to pass. Therefore, he let those students stay in the shade all day, taking down one meter units, while I ran the flotation unit all by myself. I made a point of telling him several time at the beginning of field school, I had a ruptured disc and two vertebrae that were bone-on-bone in my lower back, but he decided that didn't matter. He specifically told me some students who are in better shape may be required to do more physical tasks. It didn't matter when I reminded him of my injuries! Anyhow, I wrestled the wayerpump down the mud embankment everyday, through the barbed wire fence, got it running when no one, especially Marvin could get it started...oh did I mention I come from a rural upbringing? Apparently I had been stereotyped as a stupid redneck! At the end of field school, I had almost single-handedly finished all the floatation samples for the first time!! Everyone said it was unfair I was the only student who was subjugated to one station the entire field school. Everyone told me he had better give me an A because I had done more to earn it, than any other student in field school. Guess what??? Marvin gsve me a "B" for my participation in field school. When I confronted him about it he agreed if I wrote a 20 page paper on "what constitutes a good crew member on an archeological project". I knew, he had already betrayed me, so I used this opportunity to critique his methodology and what a crew member should be required to contribute and the physical requirements for every member of an archeological project, because to this day he has no idea. I saw him in the field several times after that and he acted as if we were colleagues. I'm sorry! Anyone who places the majority of physical work on a few crew members, then let the rest work the units in the shade is no colleague of mine. Ethics actually mean something to me! |
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Completely incompetent. Used to give him 5 minutes, before we closed our text books, because he would go on a rant about a subject having nothing to do with Archaeology! |
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