Word: fox
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...would like to keep it that way, there are already indications that he may be asked to plow through more projects in the future. Says Rosovsky: "I think he's done an absolutely excellent job, and my hope with people like him is that they stay a little longer." Fox adds that Verba did "a superb job" moderating the student government debate...
Harvard's three-month-long refusal to help the innovative Black guide, in the words of Dean of the College John B. Fox, Jr. '59, became "something of a public issue here in Cambridge." While writing a descriptive article about the Brown University group working on the book, a Crimson reporter stumbled onto the information that the Harvard assessment had become something of a problem because Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III had declined to answer a questionnaire sent to him or to distribute the five student questionnaires...
After the situation made headlines, Fox abruptly changed course. He returned a completed dean's questionnaire in mid-July, adding a cover letter explaining the delay and the administration's remaining worries with the book. Specifically, he criticized "segregationist and separatist assumptions behind the [dean and student] questionnaires" and concerns over the "survey technique" for student opinions which, because of the small number polled, would seem to produce "at best a series of idiosyncratic responses, at worst, a quite misleading, for good or ill, impression...
...Fox explained: "Harvard College recognizes the racial differences in its student population and nevertheless has clear and specific integrationist goals:...We do not seek to respond to the needs of categories of students, but rather to the special combination of needs each individual student presents...
Barry Beckham, the tenured Black professor who editor the Brown guide, said in an interview earlier this month that the fears of subjectivity expressed by Fox were echoed by officials at other universities. "They were really afraid of the subjective aspects of the profiles," Beckham said. "They had no sense of how objective the editor would be." But Beckham added that most universities "felt they had to take a chance. In the final analysis, they realized that a book like this was long-overdue. They balanced off the risk with the need...