Word: coxes
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Late last spring, the faculty of Columbia created a committee to investigate and evaluate the disturbances on campus during April and May. The committee was chaired by Archibald Cox, Professor of Law at Harvard, and its "General Observations," which conclude its recently released report, are reprinted below...
...much-heralded Crisis at Columbia, the 222-page report of the five-man Cox Commission, differs strikingly from the reports of the other two most publicized investigative commissions in recent years--the Warren Commission report on President Kennedy's assassination and the Kerner Commission report on urban riots...
Unlike the former, the Cox Commission does not set out to verify a theory and spend most of its time expressing a point of view and using the facts to prove its case. And as such, Crisis at Columbia is unlikely to produce the kind of controversy and criticism that have surrounded the Warren Commission Report since its publication. Harvard law professor Archibald Cox and his four colleagues--one of whom was Dana L. Farnsworth, director of Harvard's Health Services--simply tried to find out what happened at Columbia and why. They did not refuse to talk...
...KERNER Commission Report described a mood and a problem--that of "white racism" in America and the growing spirit of discontent by black people--and the Cox report performs a similar task in discussing the basic causes of student discontent and showing the "authoritarianism" of Columbia's administration and trustees. It has therefore provided a distinct service, especially to the so-called "establishment" which so often blames campus uprisings on radical or revolutionary students supposedly dedicated only to destruction and violence. The Cox Commission has established that the Columbia rebellion was not all due to SDS members and their "exaggeration...
...primary failure of the Cox report is that--unlike the Kerner Commission Report--Crisis at Columbia does not deal with solutions or propose ways to proceed. Where Kerner's group made specific recommendations on what could be done to improve the status of black people in America and the condition of our cities, Cox and his fellow commissioners conclude with a set of idealistic hopes on the way universities should be rather than what should be done. For instance, the Report states that the "university is essentially a free community of scholars dedicated to the pursuit of truth and knowledge...