Word: roose
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Thomas B. Roos '51, chairman of the sub-committee on agenda for the executive committee and a biology professor at Dartmouth, called the students' request for class cancellation "responsible," saying "it's an appropriate response. This way there's an opportunity to put things out in the open."
Two events in the past two weeks have caused the racial tension, Roos said. On February 23, the Dartmouth maintenance crew dismantled a three-week old "South Africa memorial graveyard" snow sculpture, Roos said. He explained that the snow sculpture lay on a main road through the campus and that...
Roos said that there was "no evidence of collusion" between trustees and the maintenance crew, adding that the faculty has "no knowledge that it was a political act."
Both Roos and DeFrantz said that the students' actions were probably no more than a joke. "If one were looking for reasons to start a protest, the actions could be interpreted as racist," Roos said.
Lawrence K. Roos, President Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis St. Louis