Word: coxing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into the Stream. Violence-and university intransigence-were rejected by the special commission, under former U.S. Solicitor General Archibald Cox, that was appointed to investigate last spring's student rebellion at Columbia. Implicitly advising other school administrations on how to avoid such troubles, the Cox report contends that Columbia administrators had too often "conveyed an attitude of authoritarianism and invited distrust" of students and that the roots of unrest lay in a "deepseated dissatisfaction with Columbia life" among nonradical students and faculty. Cox concluded that "the survival of Columbia as a leading university depends upon finding ways of drawing...
Lowell House entered last year's Head of the Charles and captured the "senior four-oared shells with cox" division in record time. Rowing in that boat were four of the oarsmen in this year's Olympic Boat--Dave Higgins, Cleve Livingston, Fritz Hobbs, and Art Evans. Andy Larkin, also in the Olympic Boat, easily won the "junior single sculls" competition...
...SIMILAR fashion, the Report says that the "survival--literally the survival--of the free university depends upon the entire community's active rejection of disruptive demonstrations." But, in an interview as well as in the report, Cox warned that this should be taken together with the idea that the institution must be organized "in ways that produce both loyalty and the relief of grievances." These ideals, of course, are extremely difficult to argue with, but aside from a few hints (such as "ways must be found, beginning now, by which students can meaningfully influence the education afforded them and other...
...Report seems to provide as fair and unbiased a coverage of last spring's events at Columbia and the causes--both direct and underlying--as anyone might have hoped. The Cox Report's description of the actions taken by the administrators, students, faculty members, and police corresponds pretty well with the events as shown in a recently-released film shown here a week ago Friday. The film was obviously favorable to the position of the student rebels, but the difference between the two lies in the emphasis. Where the film, for instance, made a great point of showing the camaraderie...
Archibald Cox likes to recount a tale of the evening he spent at dinner with a group of radical students and how, after a while, they had forgotten he was there and talked of their plans and their politics in front of him. He and his panel worked hard and their report is valuable in that a respectable body of men who can certainly not be considered radical, after a thorough and careful examination, ended up placing the blame for student discontent and student activism on administrators and faculty members. Their goals, as expressed in the report's conclusions...