Word: frasier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Backed by his ambitious and unpopular vice president, Clark Frasier, Geographer Freeman ordered his professors around as they had never been ordered around before. A gruff, stubborn man, he refused to listen to their complaints, once bluntly told them to stop flunking students lest enrollment drop. As the months passed, professors began to seethe. But it was not until they hit upon the strange case of the athletic director's unearned M.Ed, that they openly revolted...
When the catalogue appeared, the campus finally erupted. To the faculty, the Reese affair was a symbol of everything that angered them about Freeman's and Frasier's highhanded ways. All seven members of the physical education department threatened to resign unless Reese was dropped. The rest of the faculty started an investigation, drew up an 86-page report for the trustees charging Reese with incompetence. Later, the faculty also voted 69 to 10 to declare "no confidence" in President Freeman, and 400 students followed suit. Finally, just at the end of the academic year, the trustees...