Word: foxes
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Instead, John Fox, dean of the College, essentially dismissed the book as irrelevant for two reasons: 1) Its broader subjective conclusions are based on skimpy research, and 2) It fails to mention Harvard's new race-relations agency. He is correct on both counts in a strict sense, but ultimately mistaken is again distancing Harvard from the Brown operation...
...Fox and others said they had had reservations from the outset about participating is a project that sought opinions from no more than seven Harvard undergraduates in compiling a 1000-word assessment of undergraduate life here. These doubts seem reasonable; like most other college and course review handbooks, the Black guide presents some straightforward statistics and a subjective viewpoint, nothing more. Why not just urge the ambitious young authors to take advantage of as many sources of information as possible and then try to publicize Harvard's working to overcome past indifference to race relations with new activism? That...
Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59 said the guide's evaluation was incomplete because it failed to mention the race relations Foundation...
Several Harvard officials, including Davis and Fox, said the guide's description of Harvard as "impersonal" is based on a stereotype of the College. "That's become something I think people feel they've got to say," Fox said...
...There's no point in carrying on into eternity something which may have happened at the age of 17 or 18 or 19," says Fox. Given the promise of a clean slate, offenders have little incentive to go public with legal actions or loud denials. Were Princeton's Napolitano--who is particularly upset that her plagiarism violation may nix her hopes of getting into law school--a Harvard student, she might never have raised legal hell...