Sankara said:
The idea of Indy AND Marcus switching to Barnett College... and than Indy AND Marcus (*LOL*) switching back to Marshall College is Expanded Univierse-BS!
Nothing more...
Why would Marcus "switch?" He didn't work at either Barnett or Marshall in either Raiders
or Last Crusade. He only became Marshall's dean in the 40's between Last Crusade and Crystal Skull. Prior to that, he was just a regular visitor.
emtiem said:
In my mind they're the same place, and Marcus works there too (it would seem odd for him to say that the FBI chaps in Raiders were 'there to see him' if he didn't work there- why would they go through Marcus if he had nothing to do with the college?).
Was it explicitly stated to be Marshall in Raiders?
Well for starters, Musgrove and Eaton are Army Intelligence, not FBI. And Marcus
could come and tell Indy they wanted to see him at Marshall despite not working there. Since he's curator of a museum, what likely happened is that Musgrove and Eaton came to him first and asked him to recommend a guy who could help them and Marcus said, "I know just the fellow," and they went to Marshall where he told them to wait in the lecture hall while he went and fetched Indy, who he was already scheduled to meet about the idol anyway.
Marcus' presence at Barnett despite not being a member of its faculty, can be explained similarly; Indy phoned him as soon as he got the Cross of Coronado and Marcus came to get it.
So, Marcus never changed colleges, because he never worked at Marshall in the first place. He's just a museum curator who does business with whatever college Dr. Jones happens to be working for, due to his being an obtainer of rare antiquities. Indy is the only one who changed colleges. And really, that isn't too unusual in the teaching world.
As to why he switched to and from colleges, well, maybe Barnett offered him more money, and then he later returned to Marshall for whatever reasons. Probably he went back after Marcus became its dean, because Marcus (and later Stanforth) ensured better pay than that which had been used to lure him away from Marshall to Barnett originally.