Word: foxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DEAN ROSOVSKY, in his recent approval of the revised Fox plan, has done a great disservice to both the Quad and the University as a whole. Rosovsky demonstrated that Quad residents will remain second-class citizens of the University when he made only token efforts to improve the Quad's insufficient physical plant, despite the University's $30 million fundraising drive for the expanded Soldiers Field Complex. Rosovsky also blithely ignored the best available solution to the housing problem--University-wide four-year housing. And the Dean's methods in implementing the plan show a lack of real concern...
...shortchanged the Quad and its residents and instead concerned itself largely with the peripheral problem of Canaday Hall and the question of four-class housing at the Quad. Rosovsky's plan took almost no notice of long-term measures to equalize the quality of all University housing. Rosovsky and Fox dismissed one such proposal, that of remodeling the Yard dorms into Houses and establishing four-year Houses throughout the College as being too expensive. Although he placed the cost of this alternative at $15 to $30 million, the Task Force on College Life predicted the price...
...Lynn Fox, an educator who studied precocious math students for her doctoral thesis at Johns Hopkins University, found that "there are more negative stereotypes for math-gifted girls than boys," and that mathematically apt girls "seem more willing to sacrifice intellectual stimulation to social stimulation." Other studies have confirmed that girls' interest in math plummets at around age twelve, when adolescence makes them more aware of social roles...
...opposition to the plan that began when Dean Fox first drew up the plan has continued despite Rosovsky's approval...
Last month, opponents of the plan distributed leaflets calling for students to send letters to the College Fund declaring their reluctance and in some cases, refusal to contribute to Harvard upon graduation should, the Fox plan be implemented...