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What that means is that she and newly appointed Administrative GSAS Dean John B. Fox Jr. '59 will have to look into why enrollment in the school has dropped 60 percent during the last decade, why graduate students perennially complain that Harvard doesn't have enough teaching fellowships or housing for them, and why the GSAS needs more money--and lots of it. These problems are just the tip of the GSAS iceberg...
Sally Falk Moore and John B. Fox Jr. '59 have their work cut out for them. The new deans of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences don't take up residence in Byerly Hall until Thursday, but a detailed agenda already awaits their attention...
Well, start with an all-American kid like Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox, the ultra-conservative son in "Family Ties"). Surround him with a girl-next-door sweetheart, a caricature family and a mad doctor friend (Christopher Lloyd, who played Jim the drug addict in "Taxi") who has created a Time Machine. Sound familiar...
...dean of the College also controls the Committee on House Life and works with House Masters to improve living conditions, although the Masters technically report to Bok. Fox's greatest challenges, and undoubtedly the most pressing issues of his successor, will be alleviating over-crowding in upperclass Houses. He will work with both Masters and the admissions office to reduce the problems created when five people try to live in four-bedroom suites. In addition, the dean has overseen and must continue to oversee portions of the $250 million renovation project now centered on the Radcliffe Quadrangle Houses...
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...