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...Barry Beckham, the tenured Black professor who editor the Brown guide, said in an interview earlier this month that the fears of subjectivity expressed by Fox were echoed by officials at other universities. "They were really afraid of the subjective aspects of the profiles," Beckham said. "They had no sense of how objective the editor would be." But Beckham added that most universities "felt they had to take a chance. In the final analysis, they realized that a book like this was long-overdue. They balanced off the risk with the need...
...July 27 letter to Fox, Beckham took issue with the College's concerns, writing. "Without meaning to sound cynical, I must say that it is often exasperating to discover that whenever Black people decided to do something for themselves, those efforts are termed segregationist and separatist.. To be quite honest, Black students' primary considerations have to do with their chances for psychological as well as academic survival, and those chances are usually linked directly to the college's commitment to the special needs Black students bring to the campus...
Epps, in his April letter to Beckham and in subsequent interviews with the Crimson, focused solely on what he called the "too subjective" questions in explaining Harvard's position. Epps feared that Harvard's unique race relations policy might be put "in a very bad light" under the established format. Nevertheless, the dean left the door open for possible future contribution to the guide, pending a change in the information-gathering approach to one allowing for broader explanation...
...gave as his reason for backing out what he described as a long-standing Ivy policy not to contribute to commercially produced guides. Beckham said in an interview, "I'd never heard of the policy and no one had ever mentioned it to me." Not only did all of the other Ivy schools contribute to the guide weeks before Harvard relented, but it also remains unclear what policy Harvard was obeying. Dean of Admissions L. Fred Jewett '57 last week described the Ivy policy as one which forbids participation in guides which require schools...
Although Fox never gave a single reason for switching, it is obvious that the rest of the Ivy League's participation and the public airing of his administration's bungling were his primary motivations. He said in his second letter to Beckham that Jewett has "recently...discussed participation in your guide with other Admissions offices in the League." All seven other schools had, apparently to Fox's astonishment, been able to decide independently on the basis of the book's merits. Fox further explained that he had not even looked at the questionnaires when making his final decision. And Epps...