Word: foxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fox, who appointed the Dowling Committee last year, says he will take "whatever findings and recommendations the committee eventually makes to the appropriate bodies, including the Faculty Council and the full Faculty if necessary." But Fox also says he sees "a big difference" between the Fainsod Committee, whose proposals required approval of the full Faculty, and the Dowling Committee. "The Fainsod Committee suggested there should be more student involvement in College decisions," he says, "but the Dowling Committee will be more concerned with the effectiveness of student involvement than with its volume. There is an awful lot of student consultation...
...students and a member of the committee, agrees with Kiely that "it is too early to predict what recommendations we might make." Even the composition of the committee is not yet certain. One member, William J. Skocpol, associate professor of Physics, will be on leave this semester, and Fox has not yet appointed a replacement...
...Terry Fox, 22, is a fitness-minded British Columbian who played soccer and basketball at Simon Fraser University near Vancouver-until 3½ years ago, when he learned that he had bone cancer. His right leg was amputated above the knee in March 1977, a blow that seemed certain to rule out further athletic achievement. Yet this summer, Fox caught the imagination of Canadians by attempting an extraordinarily punishing feat as a long-distance runner. On April 12 he set out from St. John's, Newfoundland, intent on running 5,300 miles across the continent to Vancouver...
...Fox talked the Canadian Cancer Society into sponsoring his run as a fund-raising venture, and he wore a white T shirt labeled MARATHON OF HOPE. Said he: "I wanted to show people that just because they're disabled...
Last week, after Fox had raised nearly $2 million in pledges for cancer research, his run came to an abrupt end, more than halfway to his goal. Three miles outside Thunder Bay, Ont,, and 3,336 from his starting point, Fox began coughing and choking, with pain in his neck and chest. He bravely ran on, so as not to disappoint spectators who had waited for him, but soon checked into a local hospital for tests. The verdict: his cancer has spread. As he told reporters tearfully, "I've got it in my lungs...