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Sources at the Med School say that Tosteson has avoided getting involved with the minority subcommittee issue. And Holmes says, "You wouldn't even know Tosteson was there--the faculty council is his cabinet and they run things. Tosteson is very, very inaccessible--you can only infer his views from his allowing Paul to run around loose...
...best, the quotes used in the above paragraph are an inaccurate synthesis of the answers I gave the author to several similar questions asked repeatedly at different points in our conversation. At no time did I say that the faculty council was Dean Tosteson's cabinet. The faculty cabinet is an independent body, elected by and from the Medical School faculty. It is the deans of the Medical School who carry out the administrative duties most visible to students, and in that sense they act as Dean Tosteson's cabine. The Crimson's version of my statement is a total...
Secondly, at no time did I infer to the author that Dr. Oglesby Paul was "running around loose." My response to his repeated questions was that neither I nor anyone else knew Dr. Tosteson's opinions on the matter of minority admissions as he had at no time made them public. Dr. Paul's opinions on minority admissions, however, have been the only public statements by the administration made known throughout the Medical School community...
Concerning the second sentence in the quote, Holmes is correct: she never "inferred" to me that Dr. Paul was "running around loose." She said it straight out. Her emphasis may have been subverted by the language she used, the important point being that one can only infer Tosteson's views, since he refuses to say anything about the issue of minority admissions...
Several faculty members contacted yesterday, including associate deans Mitchell Spellman and S. James Adelstein, said they are unaware of the possible elimination of the minority subcommittee and do not have any opinion on the issue. Daniel C. Tosteson, dean of the Medical School, could not be reached for comment last week...