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Hurlbut residents--who call their dorm "theButt" and themselves Hurl-beu-tians--live in"pods;" huge circular common rooms with singlesbranching off of them, or "suites," four rooms andbathroom adjoining a small hallway. Most ofHurlbut's oddly shaped rooms are comfortable andin good repair...
Probably nowhere in the world is there a college president quite like Frank Beu (rhymes with cue) of Western Illinois University. A skinny, owlish man of 59, he runs his compact (2,600 students) campus in Macomb (pop. 10,592) as if he, and not the state, were the owner. When he is not enjoying his paneled and well-equipped office (TV, hifi, radio, air conditioning), he is apt to be stomping about outside, shooting at pigeons with a shotgun, or scaring away stray dogs with a BB gun ("I don't see anything wrong with that. Some have...
Since his college has a good academic reputation, at least in official state circles, Beu has been allowed to go his arbitrary way for 15 years. But last week one of his eccentricities had him in trouble. A onetime high-school principal and football coach, Prexy Beu is obsessed with having a winning football team, and he will go to unusual lengths...
...them ... is now serving a term of one to 20 years for armed robbery." But, in spite of the scandal, in the two months before sentence was actually passed, McCue was out there on the Western Illinois gridiron, complete with scholarship and the personal approval of President Beu...
...That Beu would welcome back a player guilty of grand larceny was too much for the faculty. Professors began writing the Macomb Journal all sorts of reports about the Beu administration. Beu angrily called a faculty meeting, threatened to fire all informers, ordered his professors to stop calling his players stupid. It was the professors, he said, and not the players, who were stupid. But the letters to the Journal kept right on coming in, one complaining of "the young scholars who spend their afternoons on the gridiron and their evenings with their fingers in somebody else's cashbox...