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...University of California's eight colossal campuses, some classes are as big as some colleges-600 or 700 students Now comes a dramatically different campus, scaled to intimate living and learning Ihe new University of California at Santa Cruz will eventually consist of 20 small liberal arts colleges like Amherst or Swarthmore and about ten graduate schools. Each will have about 600 students, and each will have its own traditions. The idea borrows from Oxford Vale, Harvard, and California's Claremont "cluster" of private colleges, which includes Scnpps and Pomona...
...Santa Cruz could easily have been another monolith like Berkeley or U.C.L.A; it is one of three new branches of the California empire, each of them to be bigger than for example, private Stanford. What clinched the new plan was the stunning 2,000 acres of redwood forests and limestone quarries overlooking Monterey Bay, loo miles south of San Francisco Ihe university bought the land, settled loo years ago by Rancher Henry Cowell lor a rock-bottom $1,000 an acre...
...rest is burly Dean McHenry, 53, a political scientist longtime close friend of Clark Kerr president of the university. Once roommates at Stanford, the two married Stanford girls who had also been roommates Kerr first made McHenry the university's statewide planner then the new chancellor of Santa Cruz. McHenry's aim, as Kerr it, is a campus that "seems small as it grows larger...
Dean E. McHenry, chancellor of the new campus, expressed interest in the Houses last year while interviewing several Harvard undergraduates. Twenty small liberal arts colleges will built at Santa Cruz, each with an independent administration. Between 250 and 1000 students will live in each unit. In his talk with students, McHenry was especially impressed with both the tutorial system and the Masters. Santa Cruz will have a campus-wide faculty, but like Harvard will have ten to twelve faculty members living in each college. The first to be built, Cowell College, will include a residence for the dean...
Nixon has zigzagged 18,000 miles across the state, most recently whistle-stopping from Santa Cruz to San Diego in a "Victory Special" train. He has squeezed some 163,000 hands, withstood 15 solid hours of more-or-less random questions from telethon viewers. He has livened his rallies with glamorous girls, organized everything from "Giant Fans for Nixon" to "Veterinarians for Nixon"-headed by the vet who cares for his dog Checkers...