Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such power to act independently is now for Cox. He first made his name as a University strategist when he headed the blue-ribbon panel appointed by the Columbia administration to investigate the causes of the massive student strike which paralyzed that university in April...
However, the report which built Cox's reputation as the nation's leading confrontation expert proposed a strategy for student disruptions which has since proved bankrupt: it chided Grayson
...Harvard Administration employed such a strategy a year later after consulting Cox, when faced with a militant building occupation. The result was a massive and broad-based student strike which effectively paralyzed the University for nearly a month, radicalizing many students and politicizing many Faculty members...
...September 1969, the Corporation quietly gave Cox a full mandate to handle all such future situations. Although in theory every University official must report to the President. Cox answered only to the Corporation...
Since then, Cox has played a major role in all major crises. In each he has acted independently, keeping his intentions to himself and insisting on his own authority to set University policy...