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Texas-Size Growth. Even established public multiversities are building in frantic fashion. The University of California (current enrollment: 95,320, which will grow to 140,000 by 1975) adds 8,000 students a year-the equivalent of Yale's student body. At its crowded, overgrown Berkeley campus, steelworkers clinging to an open I beam are as much a part of the Sproul Plaza scene as are the hippie protesters. Texas-size is the right phrase for that state's major public university, which has spread to ten campuses in seven cities with 52,631 students, 1,500 teachers...
Despite the blessings it offers in diversity and opportunity, bigness remains a problem. "The university of the '60s," says Berkeley Chancellor Roger W. Heyns, "is a city, and the problem is how to get neighborhoods within that city-otherwise you have loneliness and anonymity." Most major universities are working on ways to create those neighborhoods, such as "the cluster college" pattern of California's Santa Cruz campus, the "living-learning" units at Michigan State, and Meyerson's attempt to create "centers of identification" at Buffalo...
...first great mass producer of LSD," a University of Virginia drop-out named Augustus Owsley Stanley III. Operating in a way that might have made a financial success of Edgar Allan Poe, Owsley married a sensuous U.C.L.A. chemistry major and went into acid production in a laboratory near the Berkeley campus. He has turned out an estimated ten million pills, worth between $2 and $5 apiece...
...Boston experiment is modeled on Berkeley's pioneering Graduate Theological Union (TIME, Nov. 6, 1964), which was founded in 1962 by four Bay Area seminaries, has since expanded to encompass eleven divinity schools-six Protestant, five Roman Catholic. The Jesuits' Alma College at Los Gatos and the Franciscan The ology School in Santa Barbara are so pleased with the affiliation that they plan to abandon their existing facilities and move to the G.T.U. campus as soon as feasible...
America, it is far less frequent in Europe. Most of the current rebelliousness is definitely Berkeley-styled and is blamed by some educators as being U.S.-inspired. The Free University of Berlin has even developed its own version of Mario Savio in Rudi Dutschke. a fiery radical who has been arrested for leading student demonstrations against police barricades...