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Franklin Ford's last term as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences ended on a less than happy note. At the time that a stroke forced his retirement from the deanship, political divisions between the Administration and students, and among the very Faculty which he was charged with presiding over reached their deepest point...
...Ford enters the deanship for the second time, he will find a Faculty closer to unity than it has been since the issues surrounding the Vietnam war and student protest began to tear it apart. Although minority segments continue to challenge the Faculty's positions, few still hold the bitter hatreds which threatened to permanently divide this community...
Ford will handle the administrative duties of the deanship, while Harvey Brooks, dean of Engineering and Applied Physics, assumes its responsibilities regarding Faculty legislation...
Brooks explained yesterday his post would be only a "supporting role" to Acting Dean Ford. "I see my job as basically an adviser to Ford." Brooks said. "But he'll handle all the adminstrative problems of the deanship...
...dual appointment suggests that Bok has found difficulty in finding a replacement for Dunlop. Brooks stressed that Bok wanted to make the transition as "easy as possible," and the dual deanship was the best...