Word: campus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last eight years the University, which is located on a spacious, beautiful campus in the town of Amherst, has evolved from a largely agricultural college of 1,200 students to a diversified state university with a co-educational enrollment of almost 4,000. Of this present student body, less than ten percent majors in agriculture, while half the students concentrate in the Liberal Arts and Science and the rest specialize in such fields as Engineering, Business Administration, Home Economics, Physical Education, and the newly created School of Nursing. Indeed, so far is agriculture from dominating the University's curriculum that...
...situation in California, then, is far from clear-cut. Testimony has been given by the chief counsel of the state Un American Activities Committee that a representative was on the campus full-time to investigate any member of the faculty. The Berkeley administration insists that the average professor, not in classified research, is under no special surveillance. Because Mr. Wadman functions much of the time in secrecy there has been no decisive way for the faculty and students at California to find out all the facts about his job. His presence on the campus is resented in some quarters; there...
...Queens College, on the other hand, not the administration, but the Student Council threatened censorship of the campus newspaper this spring. After the Crown printed an advertisement from the Labor Youth League, which is listed on the Attorney General's list of subversive organizations, the Student Council ruled by a vote of 19-6 that any college publication "which carries such ads shall be subject to immediate suspension and possible revocation of its charter...
...main highway which runs through the sleepy South Carolina town of Orangeburg are the weathered buildings of the state's Colored Normal, Industrial, Agricultural, and Mechanical College. They are old buildings, belonging for the most part to generations long past. An air of decay pervades the 50-acre, unkempt campus. It is a decay bred from apathy--apathy of the State Legislature, of the board of trustees, of the 1300 or so students who know they are getting an education that is second-rate. It springs from a college president who, though obsequious to the all-white board of trustees...
Local newspapers spoke out in defense of Mitchell's right to express his views--no matter how controversial. Campus groups praised the professor and denied allegations that he had tried to indoctrinate his students...