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Both James D. Wilkinson, assistant professor of History and Literature and a Knox fellowship judge, and Katherine H. Auspitz '63, assistant professor of social studies, and a Shaw fellowship judge, said that they wrote recommendations for several candidates...
...understand people worried about a conflict of interest but I do not think that, in the end, you let yourself be swayed by bias," Wilkinson said...
...presence of three Knox judges ensured unbiased selection of winners, Wilkinson said. He added that only one of the four students he recommended became a Knox finalist and none became a fellowship winner...
...Wilkinson denied any bias toward Lowell House applicants, but said the Knox committee was "under a certain subtle pressure to take women because the Knox was just opened to women...
...went into private practice. At 25, he was elected to the state senate, and in 1964, at 33, he ran for the U.S. Senate. Oklahoma Senator Robert S. Kerr had died suddenly, and Harris received the support of Kerr's powerful oil family. He narrowly defeated Republican Bud Wilkinson, the former Oklahoma University football coach. In 1966 Harris won a full Senate term...