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...works of Thoreau, the migration of the Mormons, and computerized mathematical simulations of ecological systems. Hampshire has also been a pioneer in letting students work on their own for a month in midwinter. This year one girl simulated blindness for two weeks in a self-designed psychology experiment; Holly Lyman, daughter of Stanford University President Richard Lyman, taught herself to weave...
Appropriate Response. Stanford has borne its share of dissenters, but President Richard Lyman, a longtime public foe of the Viet Nam War, felt that Franklin had gone too far. Charging that the heckling incident "strikes at the university's obligation to maintain itself as an open forum." Lyman recommended that the faculty advisory board suspend Franklin without pay for one academic quarter...
...Last month, after the Laos invasion, with his suspension hearing still pending, the pugnacious professor exhorted a crowd to occupy the university computer center. They did, sparking hours of disturbances during which some student conservatives were beaten and two youths were wounded by gunfire. As a result, President Lyman suspended Franklin from all professorial duties (with pay, because of university regulations) and recommended that the advisory board dismiss him. The university also sought a court injunction barring the professor and certain of his followers from the campus...
...Honeymoon. Impressed with his integrity and strength, the trustees have just named Lyman, 46, president of Stanford. He succeeds Kenneth Pitzer, a quiet, introspective chemist who served only 19 months and was rebuffed at every turn. Pitzer was partly done in by vindictive student radicals who went to the extreme of drenching him with red paint. His low profile also irked key alumni donors, a bad omen when Stanford was contemplating a major fund drive. Last June, to the trustees' obvious relief, Pitzer resigned. Search committees of faculty, students and alumni took only three months to reach a consensus...
Undaunted by current fads (his hair is short, his ties 1960 width), Lyman is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Swarthmore, a Harvard Ph.D. and an expert on contemporary British history. As provost for 31 years, he increased the admission of minority students and spearheaded curriculum reforms. Skilled in the vanishing art of dialogue, he delivered frequent briefings over the campus radio last spring and has now scheduled a weekly press conference. He seeks reform, but intends to fight disruption. "We have to preserve order," he said last week, "because if we do not, someone else who does not understand...