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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First, but in no particular order of importance, he said the coach must develop a working rapport with his players. "I've got players here from California and Florida," he explained, "They've got no parents to talk to. If they can't come to me with personal problems, then I've failed as a coach...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: SPORTS of the 'CRIME' | 3/2/1968 | See Source »

...lack of guts, thinks Jack Hanson, owner of the celebrated California-based Jax women's sportswear boutiques, that has held men back until now. Says he: "The problem is that so many male homosexuals have always dressed far-out that other men are afraid of being identified as one." Evidently Hanson believes that the old fear is fading, for he has just opened a Jax for Men boutique in Beverly Hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Man! | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

...California, too, there is trouble between educators and the governor-this time at college level. Governor Ronald Reagan is once again coming under academic fire for his cost-cutting budgetary policies. Last year, regents and administrators of the University of California reluctantly went along with a Reagan-proposed $13 million cut in requested operating funds as an emergency measure. In January, the Governor proposed a $280 million budget for the university next year, or $31 million less than the request submitted by University President Charles J. Hitch. The regents-including several who sided with Reagan last year-are fighting hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: Austerity in California | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

Meanwhile California's academic administrators complain that faculty morale is at an alltime low, worry about the steady exodus of star professors, and insist that what was once the nation's finest system of public higher education is in danger of heading to ward mediocrity. Last week John Summerskill, 42, resigned after two years as president of San Francisco State, home of one of the nation's first student-initiated "free colleges" and a campus noted for its unorthodox ways. Lamenting the "financial starvation" that faces his college, Summerskill complained that "the political leadership is tuned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: Austerity in California | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

Symptoms of Deterioration. The grumbling is even greater at California's 18 state colleges, which serve 190,000 students, compared with 95,000 at the university. Reagan asked for a $24 million slash in the colleges' proposed $249 million budget. Faced with an $18.5 million request for funds to lower professors' class loads and introduce various innovations, the Governor reduced the sum to a mere $459,000. Even State College Chancellor Glenn Dumke, a friend and politicalally of Reagan's, sees "symptoms of deterioration" in a rising faculty turnover (now at 10% a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: Austerity in California | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

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