Word: coxing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...editors enjoyed more tangible advantages also. The Cox Commission, meeting after the occupation as a Columbia-appointed group, could persuade neither the leaders of SDS nor Afro to testify before them. The Spectator editors knew Rudd and Cicero Wilson personally and mingled easily into demonstrations. Only they were allowed inside the meetings of the ad hoc Faculty Group that vainly tried to mediate the crisis...
...Spectator is also freer from the taint of establishment than Cox Commission members. Its anti-administration bias will be more palatable to some persuasions than the liberal witticisms that slip from the Cox group. (Cox harshly criticizes the five SDS leaders who refused to appear before Dean Platt in May when the campus was still seething.) "It is clear to us," Cox says, "that no student has a right or privilege under any circumstances to ignore a dean's summons [unless he is disabled by illness or other emergency...
...their memoirs. They are tempted to tell everything, "just as it happened." The streaming flaming narrative does lend flesh, bone, and color as the press blurb promises; it also jumbles events into a sequence as confusing as living it the first time through. The fine-honed skeleton of the Cox Report may stiffen in its structured divisions and categories, creak in its outline, but it does throw critical events into prominence and leave others in the gloom where they belong...
...memorandum confirmed the names of the committee members reported yesterday. They are Robert E. Keeton, professor of Law, chairman; Clark Byse, professor of Law; Archibald Cox '34, Samuel Williston, professor of Law; Benjamin Kaplan, Royal Professor of Law; Albert M. Sacks, associate dean of the Law School; and Lloyd L. Weinreb, professor...
...committee members are considered distinguished members of the Law School. Cox is a former United States Solicitor General and chaired the commission that investigated last spring's upheaval at Columbia University. Keeton is the co-author of a revolutionary new car insurance plan that passed the Massachusetts House in the summer of 1967 and is presently being considered by several state legislatures...