Word: fox
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...read this piece, the Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence, who controls the College as well, is reviewing candidates to assume the responsibilities of the dean of the College. The current dean, John B. Fox Jr. '59, announced in February that he will step down no later than June 1986. Fox said he will look for "new challenges" at Harvard, but where and when he will go remains a mystery...
...Fox, an imposing 6'9'' tall, has towering responsibilities ranging from housing to the discipline of students in the College. But his most direct contact with students is through his leadership of the Administrative Board, or the College's disciplinary body, where he enforces "conduct becoming of a Harvard student." In other words, the lumbering administrator is the curator of Harvard's past; he's the enforcer of tradition...
Every Tuesday, Fox convenes 25 tutors, administrators and deans to determine the official response to transgressions of either academic or extracurricular nature...
...college athletics. Yet, in another sense, these reforms are a sad commentary on a tarnished system for being to obvious and so late in coming. They were so obvious to President Bok that he didn't even bother going, sending Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59 and Director of Athletics John P. Reardon '60 to act as "yes-men" for all the proposed changes...
...Fox is out of town and could not be reached for comment...