Word: bloustein
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tried to find a new role by broadening its curriculum. "We were becoming like a large college or university," says Donald Brown, the dean of faculty who served as acting president for the 1970-71 year. "We were adding courses without a qualitative view of education." Under President Edward Bloustein, a former law professor, Bennington spent $1.5 million on a new science building, added 50 new courses to the curriculum-about half in the sciences. Among the 20 new faculty members added in the mid-'60s were many younger teachers, and the growing unhappiness about Bennington...
Cherchez La Femme. By 1970, when Bloustein left to become president of Rutgers, the need for reassessment had become apparent. An eleven-man committee (four trustees, three students, three faculty members and an independent chairman) began the search for a new president. By December 1971, a list of 250 prospects had been culled to a dozen, and by the following June, the search committee zeroed in on quiet, witty Gail Parker, a Harvard literature professor who specializes in the study of old-time feminists (her current research project: a critical biography of Charlotte Perkins Gilman). Why Mrs. Parker? Aside from...
...students charged Bloustein with favoring the construction of the highway. Bloustein had issued a statement saying that he would not overturn the 1969 resolution of the Rutgers board of governors which does not oppose the construction site of the highway designed to ease expected air and noise pollution in the area...
...invite difference but dissent must be distinguished from disruption." Bloustein said. He called the disruption "a form of hooliganism reminiscent of the Nazi hordes...
...Bloustein emerged from the gymnasium accompanied by a police escort. Many of the students, restricted by New Brunswick police in riot gear, yelled "Sieg Heil" as he left the ceremony...