Word: foxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alan L. Balsam, of Local 26 of the Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Employees Union, sent copies of the petition to Dean Fox, Edward W. Powers, associate general counsel for employee relations, and Francis J. Weissbecker, director of Food Services...
...Dean Fox would not comment on the selection yesterday. Fox said the candidate would have to be consulted as to whether he would accept the job and the selection would have to be approved by the Corporation before it became official...
...DEAN FOX'S DECISION to limit hot breakfasts to four Houses and his subsequent announcement that neither Mather nor Dunster would be one of the four represents at best an inexcusable ignorance of student preferences for living conditions and at worst a conscious and paternalistic disregard for student and worker input in general. Fox and other administrators decided the breakfast issue as though from an ivory tower, making little effort to ascertain student opinion on the subject--and so chose an unimaginative plan that almost no one likes...
...breakfast group is a short-sighted move, one that is insensitive to its impact on already unpopular Mather. To argue that the Mather-Dunster kitchen must be closed for breakfast to obtain maximum savings is specious: if the hot breakfast is to be rotated from House to House, as Fox has said he hopes to do, these savings will disappear next year anyway. Starting the cycle in Mather or Dunster would make no financial difference; but it would probably help to offset Mather's other problems, such as overcrowding, an unfavorable sex ratio, and distance from the Yard. These problems...
...saddest part of the Fox breakfast decision is not the dislocation it will bring to students and workers but the fact that the whole problem may have been unavoidable. Dean Rosovsky and Fox dismissed out of hand the possibility of retaining hot breakfasts in all Houses, a move that would have cost each student an extra $18 to $30 in board fees each year. Administrators did not look seriously at the 14-meal plan, an option that would allow students to decide for themselves how important breakfast is to them. At the very least Fox should rotate the hot breakfasts...