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Perhaps one of Harvard's most visible administrators, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III considered a candidate for the deanship that Fox, Epps's boss, now holds, is amiable, English by environment, and available. Any student activist, politician, artist or reporter will almost certainly come into contact with Epps, who handles everything from finding rooms for press conferences after a divestment rally, to dealing with Final Club presidents who have now been disaffiliated from Harvard because they refused to allow women to join their clubs. This man is your only real link to the Harvard bureaucracy...
...that's what he thought until he assumed the deanship, he said. Actually, he concluded, there's 600 professors on top and one administrator underneath...
During John Fox's tenure, the deanship has become primarily a crisis-management position. When Mather House students complained about their crowded rooms, Fox was there. When North House students wanted to complain about the renovation plan. Fox was there. As for anticipating problems or soothing feathers before they've been fully ruffled, however, Fox has long been reluctant to address directly the concerns of irate undergraduates on a variety of issues. Only last year did he accede to persistent requests that he establish open office hours for those students too intimidated to go through his normal appointment-making routine...
Henry Rosovsky had time only for an occasional lecture during the 11 years he served as leader of the Faculty. But this spring, back from a team away after resigning the deanship last summer, the Japanese economics expert has taken on half the teaching load for Historical Study A-14. "Iradition and Transformation in East Asian Civilization Japan...
During his deanship enrollment in the Graduate School rose from about 1400 in 1955 to about...