Word: kleinsmid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind his back, some of the faculty call him "Rufus Rex." Last week Rufus Rex-Rufus Bernhard von KleinSmid, 70 -quit after 24 years as president of the University of Southern California. In U.S.C.'s official handout, he struck out the word "resigned," left it reading that he had been "elevated" to chancellor, an advisory post. Three days before, a committee that claimed to represent 90% of the faculty had appealed to U.S.C.'s trustees to investigate the "indefensible, inequitable" salaries imposed by Rufus...
...University of Southern California last year, T.N.E. members presumed to warn fraternity-shunning veterans of World War II not to seek campus office or promote their own social society, "Trovets." Promptly U.S.C.'s able President Rufus B. von KleinSmid began an enthusiastic campaign of extermination. Last week the battle reached a climax...
With an election coming up to choose new members of the T.N.E.-dominated Student Senate, President von KleinSmid demanded that the Senate make public a full list of T.N.E. members. When no list appeared, he disbanded the Senate, removed the student president and secretary from office, canceled the election. A faculty committee denounced T.N.E. as a promoter of "native fascism...
RUFUS B. VON KLEINSMID President...