Word: fords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Less than two weeks after that, Dean Ford announced the appointment of a Faculty committee to do the groundwork necessary for the establishment of a degree-granting program in Afro-American studies. Meanwhile, the CEP approved cross-registering with other universities in the Boston area for courses in African and Afro-American studies...
...Committee on Houses wasn't interested--at least not in immediate capitulation. Dean Ford announced the news with a rare verbal gaffe, commenting that he and the Committee were "tired of the issue." Dining hall politicoes were grumbling, "they jolly well better not be tired of the issue if we're interested in it," and at a sweaty four hour meeting in the Lowell House Junior Common Room about 200 students agreed to try and form an organization which might go as far as a "sleep-in" to force parietals changes...
Though widespread student interest in the issue was never rekindled, neither the Committee on Houses nor the HUC lost sight of it. A joint committee of three Masters and three students was named by Dean Ford to study the problem--and that's always a sign that change...
Cynics have suggested that the speedy adoption of longer hours (2 p.m. to midnight weekdays, noon to 1 a.m. Saturdays, noon to midnight Sundays) was a political move by Dean Ford and the Masters to avoid a confrontation next fall, but that analysis is doubly faulty. For one thing, the new hours won't free the Committee on Houses from the issue. Some students are sure to use the new hours next fall as a foot-in-the-door to agitate for getting rid of parietals altogether, or the more realistic goal of allowing women to eat at all lunches...
...Ford's courses are noted for his dry delivery. But students who paid attention to his lectures found them thorough, fascinating, and even witty. His Administration, like his course treatment, may be sometimes dry in tone but never in content...