Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...large as Nixon's lead seems at the moment, there remain obstacles. Romney plans 21 days of campaigning in New Hampshire beginning this week, and personal stumping is his strong suit. California's Ronald Reagan seems to be waiting on the right for Nixon to stumble, and meanwhile is making the most of his assertive noncandidacy. He will allow his name to appear on some primary ballots (though not in New Hampshire), perhaps benefit from write-ins elsewhere, and do some traveling to keep in trim. Next week he plans to speak at party fund-raising events...
...Gilmore, 57. In a profession uncommonly full of intelligent men, the University of Chicago law professor draws an embarrassment of praise from normally reserved colleagues. His sweeping scholarship allows him to "accomplish the impossible," says New York University's Lawrence King, while Stefan Riesenfeld of the University of California praises his writing style, which "makes study a pleasure instead of a chore." One of Gilmore's students calls him "the most popular classroom professor at the law school"; another thinks that he has "the most brilliant mind." Friend and Fellow Faculty Member Philip Kurland concludes expansively...
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...
...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...
...National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, more than 80% of the current enrollment ranked in the top half of their high school classes-and nearly a third were in the top tenth. A single D on the four-year high school record of a California student can kill his chances of getting into the university...