Word: foxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...counselor is always on duty at the information desk. "Our job is trying to direct students to the appropriate resources." But information is often not what students are after. Fowlkes says often he has the impression that students are saying, "I want you to make the choice for me." Fox echoes Fowlkes' assessment in discussing his advising experiences. "A lot of what it is about is decision-making. But should advising make decision-making easy...
...students want to know more than how Harvard works. Though some students do fall into the two extreme groups Fox cites--at one pole requesting only factual information, at the other demanding that the University make decisions for them--most fall into the middle group, wanting that elusive Faculty contact simply because they believe their education will improve by spending time with professors...
...Fox recognizes, "Sometimes I think students don't ask for more information. They are just asking for a chance to talk." Faculty contact is a more personal request than asking simply for more advice. Students seem to want faculty to thrash out "life questions, issues both academic and personal, that they believe are important," Kiyo Morimoto, director of the Bureau of Study Counsel, believes. "One of the ironies of the T.V. age is that because there is direct access to information, the assumption is that everybody has that information. So they wonder why they can't make sense...
...Dean Fox says College administrators are always alert to ways to conserve energy, pointing to a B&G study this year that showed the University used the same amount of energy today that it did ten years ago, in spite of adding more than 20 new buildings to its plant...
...Fox says there are still plenty of places to conserve by improving building management. "All of those energy issues seem at present to direct us into more intensive use of facilities, not toward closings," Fox says...