Word: foxes
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...leading colleges, but not at Harvard? Read The Chronicle of Higher Education each week and you'll almost inevitably see an account of a punitive step against a student taken by another school being challenged in court. By contrast, at Harvard, according to Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59, "In living memory I'm unaware of any case...going before civil procedure...
...answer has largely in Harvard's rare approach to disciplining students. The Administrative Board, which Fox chairs, may seem big and had, but before on jumps to conclusions, it's worth realizing that Harvard's disciplinary policies diverge from those of most schools in ways that make the University both more merciful and less prone to public knock-down drag-outs like Napolitano's. Consider the following two aspects of Harvard's approach to punishment...
...Harvard has a rather firm policy of purging a student's transcript of his on-campus indiscretions after, in Fox's words, "the penalty has been paid." Undergraduates may have to go on academic or disciplinary probation, or may even "requested" to take a term or year off. But in the end, the student's formal transcript shows nothing more than the fact that a leave of absence may have been taken. Many schools are less Jenient...
...Mark Twain. Octavia marries a closet sadist and feather-boa fetishist. Constance Philippa runs away on her wedding night, leaving in her bed a dressmaker's dummy with which her unknowing husband consummates the marriage. Fleeing west, Constance disguises herself so persuasively as the brave and manly Philippe Fox that she is appointed Assistant Deputy to the United States Marshal for Southeast Arizona, and inexplicably becomes a 'member of the masculine gender, complete in all physiological requirements as to genitalia...
More tangible assets may be imminent. Bartel's Eating Raoul, a black-and-blue comedy with a ferocious moral sense, is being distributed by real people at 20th Century-Fox after its engagement last weekend at the New York Film Festival and seems sure to recoup its tiny budget quickly, provided by Bartel's parents and friends. The film has some easy and some earned laughs, half a dozen murders and, for those who can't wait for Porky's 2, the requisite Nude Dancing at a Wild Party scene. This devious comic contraption...