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Lobbyist Supreme. At 29, Sproul became comptroller, making him business manager of the university's campuses and its vast real-estate investments, and watchdog of Cal's interests at the state capital. As a business manager, Bob Sproul was efficient; as a legislative lobbyist, he was superb. Sometimes his methods annoyed Cal's crotchety old astronomer-president, William Wallace ("Eyebrows") Campbell. Once, hearing Sproul's booming voice ripping through the wall, President Campbell demanded to know what the comptroller was doing. Told that he was talking to Sacramento, the old man snapped: "Well, tell...
...predominance of the sciences at Cal is no accident; as shrewd Bob Sproul well knows, it is much easier to persuade legislators of the tangible benefits of research in plastics or potatoes than of the value of knowing about Yeats and Keats. That attitude is not peculiar to legislators; it is shared by many of the faculty, by the overwhelming majority of California undergraduates-and by most Americans. Remarked one history major last week: "You're made to feel that if you aren't taking both physics and chemistry, you're wasting valuable space...
...Bill of Rights, practically everybody can get one. But, he adds, "large numbers of students [are] not properly qualified by native ability, or previous training, or even social attitude." Only one in five graduates of California's high schools has high enough grades (B average) to enter Cal...
From the president of a state university, that is a bold proposal. Before it is adopted, Bob Sproul will have to weather a lot of wrangling with Californians who still think Cal should be open to every taxpayer's son & daughter. Says Sproul: "You can't do anything as long as the G.I.s are coming anyway. You can't keep those boys waiting around while you remodel the educational system." But he is sure ("I'll bet my hat on it") that the state university of the future will be "a university more likely to produce...
...Goober-hanging": a discreet daytime version of what grandmother called spooning. A less active sport is "piping the flock," when Cal males watch Cal "quails" preening in the sun on the steps of Wheeler Hall. * The eight: Berkeley, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, the agricultural college at Davis, a medical center in San Francisco, Mt. Hamilton, La Jolla and a citrus experiment station at Riverside. The last three are campuses only in the imaginative, California sense: they are mainly research centers. Not part of the University of California, and not state-owned: Stanford University (at Palo Alto), the University of Southern...