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...wrote that for days people tried to figure out what the chaos and anarchy-promoting president of Antioch College meant by comparing his campus "to a well-balanced fishbowl populated with guppies, goldfish and piranhas." How utterly obvious! The militants he pampers will destroy every last guppy and goldfish in his "liberal" fishbowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 11, 1973 | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

...Directions program, with its ideals of cultural pluralism and ethnic diversity, did not upset the balance of the "fishbowl" but rather created the balance. I believe that the changing quality of our student body is not inconsistent with national trends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 11, 1973 | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

...alma mater in 1959. Usually chomping on a half-smoked cigar that sprinkles ashes down his rumpled blue polo shirt, Dixon talks in convoluted jargon that has earned him the nickname "Dim Jixon." Students still talk about his speech in 1969 comparing the campus to a well-balanced fishbowl populated with guppies, goldfish and piranhas. "For days," says one senior, "people tried to figure out what he meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tempest in the Fishbowl | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

...well liked by both faculty and students. Says Striker Jamie Dahlberg: "He used to be a really great guy. But something happened. I'm not sure what." In 1970 Dixon and the trustees took Antioch even farther, launching a "New Directions" program that upset the balance in the fishbowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tempest in the Fishbowl | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

CURRIER HOUSE FISHBOWL: Dance featuring Heian, for the Walpole State Drug Program "Inside...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: esoterica | 5/10/1973 | See Source »

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