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...Charles Odegaard, 55, Washington; One of the fastest climbers among the newer presidents, he is so active that his regents a few years ago ordered him to take a vacation. Recently, the Carnegie Corporation of New York gave him a three-month travel grant just to refresh himself-this week he is on the Mediterranean. Once a history professor, he moved to the Seattle post in 1958 from the deanship of Michigan's College of Literature, Science and the Arts...
Dead Cats. "Odegaard does not hold our affection," says one Washington professor, "though he does have our complete respect." One reason, explained another, is that "before Odegaard, there was no philosophy from above-professors were getting fat and sassy building their own domains." If there is an absence of affection, it is party because Odegaard is so blunt. He says that "it's better to get dead cats out on the top of the table. I hate sitting down to a pussyfooting conversation." He startled the National Academy of Sciences meeting by declaring in a formal address that "scientism...
Despite aloofness, Odegaard seems sharply tuned to the student wave length. "Parents may still hope that the university will provide a pastoral, protective, quiet educational retreat for their offspring before the latter meet the cruel, cold world," he told the faculty recently, "but the present university-student generation does not look to me like a generation of lost and bewildered sheep; they seem hell-bent to take on not only the complexities of the university but also of the universe." The dissident students, he contends, "are not really running away from us. They are not proposing to expel the faculty...
Washington and many other universities still face problems in trying to prove that a school can be both big and human, but Odegaard already has demonstrated that a strong hand can do great things for a big institution's morale. "Odegaard is the dynamo, and this university is extremely ambitious," says a proud graduate student, John Anthony Mountain. Declares Far Eastern Department Chairman George E. Taylor: "He's done a terrific job revitalizing this place-it's become a really big university and a damn good...
...Odegaard's successor at Michigan, Roger W. Heyns, has also headed west, is now chancellor of the University of California's Berkeley campus...