Word: baxters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Holy Cross coach Bill Baxter concurred that the squad's lack of depth was a real problem. "We lost five starters from last year and it's a real zoo trying to build a good team. I was quite happy with our individual performances, however, it's a new crew and they're coming along fast," he said...
They did not come along fast enough however, as the Harvard blade brandishers sliced through Baxter's troops like a sword through warm butter. And when Bob Bargar won his second round epee contest, the match was officially Harvard...
That particular job offer didn't pan out, but Baxter plans to leave Harvard anyway this fall. "I'm gonna go where I'm going," he says, "and I'll be looking for a range of things from government to industry. There are potentials I haven't even explored because I've been at Harvard." Unlike many others, Baxter's story, at least to date, ends on an upbeat note. "In a way, I appreciate the way things worked out," he says. "I'm fortunate the job market has been so tight--it forced me to ask some question...
...every Baxter, however, there is someone like sociologist Quee-Young Kim, who despite the frustrations of the job market is firmly committed to making it in the academic world. Both Kim and placement director Skocpol lay much of the blame for Kim's initial problems in finding a job on his being a foreigner. Although Kim was one of the department's top-recommended students, Skocpol says, when the job market begins to tighten, Americans tend to hire Americans." Kim finally landed a last-minute appointment at Simmons, but he is, like Hesford, a victim of what McKinney calls...
...Baxter and Kim share with Hesford a certain bitterness about the system--bitterness which emerges in serious personal questioning, in hurt pride, in a sense of the uselessness of daily routine. "When you're jobless," Hesford says, "the rigamarole you have to go through for your thesis after it's finished and the whole Commencement thing seem a little sour. You start thinking, 'What's the diploma worth...