Word: newburn
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...NEWBURN President
...pressures from legislators, individual regents, local boosters, and what Montana calls "the company"-the Montana Power Co., which wants taxes kept down. The board's control can be detailed and trifling. In winning a $700-a-year raise for noted Critic and Author Leslie Fiedler, an English professor, Newburn had to battle Regent Gordon Doering, a dentist who does not like what Fiedler writes. Chambers of Commerce pressure the regents so hard for expansion of local colleges that no real concentration and quality can be had at any of them...
...Newburn's main reason for quitting is his conviction that the regents are about to "dilute the state's resources" by expanding the colleges in Bozeman and Billings. A former president of the University of Oregon who later headed what is now the National Educational Television and Radio Center, Newburn believes that "Montana really ought to have just one comprehensive institution...
...typical blowup when Morton Borden, associate professor of history, made a militant speech in Minnesota before the Farmers Union Central Exchange. Borden charged Governor Babcock with hostility to consumer cooperatives, adding: "Montana will remain a backwater of Birchism while the rest of the country progresses." Ordered to investigate, Newburn told the regents that Borden failed to "exercise appropriate restraint," but had a right to speak. The Governor advised Borden to leave Montana because "he scoffs at free enterprise and belittles the state that pays him. I might remind him that it is not the right-wingers who are being placed...
Borden got a year's leave of absence, and Newburn is off to become a professor at Arizona State University. But Montana is used to losing good people. Billings alone recently had nine boys at Harvard, and eight of them were on the dean's list. Once away, such exiles rarely return. One professor calls this "the single most damaging economic and psychological aspect of Montana...