Word: fox
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...council this year has produced several quite thoughtful essays, an enormously pleasant change from an environment of criticism," says Fox. The dean attributes this thoroughness and willingness to cooperate to two factors: One is the high caliber of this year's crop of councilors and the other is the flexible student-Faculty committees which are filled by the council and where most of the council's proposals get consideration. The old 26-member Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life, which existed prior to the formation of the council in 1982, proved exceptionally unwieldy...
...women as "slobbering bovines fresh for the daughter and "grateful heffers [sic]." Cries of outrage were coupled with calls for the University to issue a prompt condemnation of the document, and this time officials were more prompt in their response. President Bok and Dean of the College John B. Fox '59 issued strongly worded condemnations--as did Radcliffe President Matina S. Horner a week later...
...There are a number of people concerned with the consequences of the lottery," says Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59. But he adds that student impetus for change in the system may be held back because it is a seasonal issue and because students have so many views on the subject...
Troubled by the implications of its tacit endorsement of the clubs. University officials and some student groups began investigating the College's links to the clubs. The student-faculty Committee on College Life, headed by Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59, undertook an investigation of the issue, while the Undergraduate Council called on Harvard to cut all ties with the clubs...
...flared up again in April when a copy of the Pi Eta Club's official newsletter became public. The newsletter, which employed violent and crude sexual imagery denigrating to women, sparked a rally outside the club and calls for the University to censure the document. Both President Bok and Fox did issue statements condemning the newsletter, but no action was taken against the club or any individual members. Not all felt that the College should penalize the Pi Eta, but the incident served to point out the extent to which the private clubs are outside Harvard's jurisdiction...