Fox--Josef W. (Philosophy and Humanities Faculty)
Displaying 151 - 200 of 413 in reverse chronological order
# | Title | Date | Summary |
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151 | Demonstration helps restore waning faith College Eye 63:5, p.2 |
Comments on a recent student demonstration. | |
152 | Refusal to learn is baffling attitude College Eye 63:3, p.2 |
Discusses the importance of learning. | |
153 | Freshmen responsible for education College Eye 63:1, p.2 |
Gives advice to incoming freshman. | |
154 | I ought to look at Dr. Fox's 'Experiment' College Eye 60:55, p.2 |
Advocates more efficient use of professors' time. | |
155 | Does skyscraper dorm represent educational wisdom College Eye 60:51, p.2 |
Questions the legitimate need for building a 'skyscraper' dormitory. | |
156 | If painting is bad burning is quite proper College Eye 60:49, p.2 |
Declares that not all 'art' is worthy of display. | |
157 | Obiter Scripta: Are unlikenesses in portrait intelligently conceived? College Eye 60:47, p.2 |
Discusses Lechay's painting and whether or not the unlikenesses to President Maucker represent something. | |
158 | Obiter Scripta: Portrait is representative of human being College Eye 60:45, p.2 |
Gives his own definition of what a portrait should be. | |
159 | Fox: Book owner has right to burn it College Eye 60:45, p.2 |
Josef Fox explains to Ralph Haskell that he suggested that students and faculty purchase the painting before burning it; Josef Fox remarks that whether it is a book or a work of art, if you own it, you may burn it. | |
160 | Dr. Fox has burning idea College Eye 60:42, p.3 |
Suggests that students and faculty should make donations to buy the painting of President Maucker and burn it. | |
161 | Obiter Scripta: Only 'phony' university seen for SCI before 1975 College Eye 60:42, p.2 |
Suggests that efforts to change SCI to university status are too early. | |
162 | Obiter Scripta: Unclear debate hinders understanding of foreign policy College Eye 60:38, p.2 |
Discusses United States policy on "containment" concerning the war in Viet Nam. | |
163 | Obiter Scripta: Must recognize large class problem, end drift policy College Eye 60:36, p.2 |
Suggests that the solution to the problem large classes and overcrowding is not to rant and rave about it, but to think about how large classes should be handled better. | |
164 | Obiter Scripta: new scholarship program unwise, sneaked by faculty College Eye 60:34, p.2 |
Discusses the new scholarships that are to be based on academic achievement and not necessity. | |
165 | Obiter Scripta: Intensive discussion needed on large class problems College Eye 60:30, p.3 |
Insists that a "Great Conversation" must take place on the matter of class sizes. | |
166 | Obiter Scripta: Course-program relationships make college vocational College Eye 60:29, p.2 |
Clarifies what he meant in a previous column, by "liberal arts program." | |
167 | Obiter Scripta: Relationship of taught, learned material still mystery College Eye 60:27, p.2 |
Describes teaching as a hazard or an adventure. | |
168 | Obiter Scripta: Is liberal arts college vocational school in disguise? College Eye 60:25, p.2 |
Claims that students see liberal arts as just another vocational training program instead of a way to develop and liberate the human spirit. | |
169 | Obiter Scripta: Informal contacts good, but must be kept subordinate College Eye 60:23, p.2 |
States that he and President Maucker have different views on where to put the new Union because they have different goals in mind. | |
170 | Obiter Scripta: 'Bad-apple' socializing will hamper educational process College Eye 60:18, p.2 |
Believes that placing the new Union in the center of the main classroom quadrangle will not help the educational process. | |
171 | Obiter Scripta: Union placement will not integrate academic social life College Eye 60:16, p.2 |
Discusses President Maucker's decision to place the new Union in the center of the main classroom quadrangle. | |
172 | Obiter Scripta: 'Great conversation' needed to consider campus planning College Eye 60:14, p.2 |
Claims that campus planning is too important of a matter to leave solely to the campus planners. | |
173 | Obiter Scripta: Unconvinced placard wavers weaken national morale College Eye 60:12, p.2 |
Supports demonstrations but insists that they must be responsible in order to have any value. | |
174 | Obiter Scripta: Hair cut edicts not fair, none of schools' business College Eye 60:10, p.2 |
Claims that people are willing to sacrifice freedom for their own prejudices. | |
175 | Obiter Scripta: Arthur Miller refusal conscience-dictated but irrational College Eye 60:8, p.2 |
Discusses Arthur Miller's declining of the President's invitation to attend the official signing of the arts and humanities bill. | |
176 | Obiter Scripta: Beauty for parking convenience: thoroughly bad swap College Eye 60:6, p.2 |
Disagrees with destroying what is left of the university's green spots to build tiny parking lots. | |
177 | Obiter Scripta: Going to college, getting education not the same thing College Eye 60:2, p.2 |
Claims that students are using college as a kind of resort for social purposes, instead of for education purposes. | |
178 | Fox upset about fast moving scientific development College Eye 59:39, p.2 |
Disrupts his humanistic views/truths and fears he will soon be preaching what will then be only superstitions. | |
179 | Present proposals won't solve drop out problem College Eye 59:37, p.2 |
High school drop-out has mentally dropped out for years before high school. | |
180 | Congress interested in more than science, big business College Eye 59:35, p.2 |
National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities may be created to parallel the National Science Foundation. | |
181 | Writers need practice, must know grammar, rhetoric College Eye 59:33, p.2 |
Composition courses are ineffective; must be re-vamped. | |
182 | Fox: new unrest includes constructive demonstrations College Eye 59:30, p.2 |
Fox applauds student groups across America for their awareness of national issues. | |
183 | Fox maintains students need more theme writing College Eye 59:28, p.2 |
Current practice of ten 400-word themes is not enough to develop students' writing skills. | |
184 | Presents proposal for greater educational efficiency College Eye 59:26, p.2 |
Greatest resource is in intelligence and energy of student body; professors should stop assuming that the only place for a student to learn is under teacher direction. | |
185 | SCI losing ground as state financial support lags College Eye 59:24, p.2 |
State funds have been decreasing for last ten years; cuts into new classroom and new faculty plans. | |
186 | Iowa presidents construing their jobs too narrowly College Eye 59:22, p.2 |
Presidents of the state's universities should work with each other to improve facilities and faculty. | |
187 | Fox strongly opposes giving vote to 18-year-old College Eye 59:20, p.2 |
Group of 18 to 21-year-olds, as a whole, is not informed or wise in areas of politics. | |
188 | Voluntary pledge of honor fails to work among cadets College Eye 59:17, p.2 |
Cheating in the Air Force Academy comes as a shock. | |
189 | 'Filthy' book causes academic freedom controversy College Eye 59:16, p.2 |
Baldwin's 'Another Country' has academic merit. | |
190 | Student cannot find individuality in today's colleges College Eye 59:15, p.2 |
States do not have enough money to allow college to cater to student individualities; colleges are not the only institutions suppressing individualities today. | |
191 | Sees growing dissatisfaction with current curriculum College Eye 59:13, p.2 |
Courses should instill morals, prepare students for specific career. | |
192 | Young instructors often choose too difficult material College Eye 59:11, p.2 |
Less-experienced teachers try to challenge students, end up wasting their time. | |
193 | Lessen non-professional tasks, attract better faculty College Eye 59:9, p.2 |
Pay faculty to do their job; hire clerks or student assistants for filing, fetching, carrying. | |
194 | Faculty again busy with non-instructional matters College Eye 59:7, p.2 |
Examination of Greek housing and deliberation of 'lights out' policy fall outside of faculty's obligations to school. | |
195 | Fox still contends individuals cannot alter history College Eye 59:5, p.2 |
Reiterates, in response to Wiesenfeld's article, that just one person cannot produce, change, or eliminate development of US. | |
196 | Fox feels he's less passionate in partisan disputes College Eye 59:3, p.2 |
Fox describes his lack of interest in presidential race. | |
197 | Obiter Scripta: many, many steps to Negro freedom and equality College Eye 58:29, p.2 |
Informs readers that the road to equal rights for African-Americans will be long and hard; the process does not take place overnight. | |
198 | Obiter Scripta: Fox says recent interest in sex not a revolution College Eye 58:27, p.2 |
Claims that the media are overreacting about the morality issue; it's not anything new. | |
199 | Obiter Scripta: Fox sees institute as significant in education scene College Eye 58:25, p.2 |
Claims that technical institutes are a necessity; technology is advancing too quickly to find workers who are educated in technology. | |
200 | Obiter Scripta: suggests 'Third Law' rather than 'gimmick' for study College Eye 58:23, p.2 |
Suggests that students would like a 'magic formula' that would enable them to pass tests without studying. |