Word: pitzer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...today's students really against the old American notion that colleges must act in loco parentis? In some ways, the young seem to be asking for even more tender, loving care. At Stanford University, President Kenneth Pitzer is now pondering whether his school should take over yet another function-dispensing the Pill to unmarried women students under as well as over...
...probably take over. Dr. Richard U'Ren, a psychiatrist at the university health center, thinks otherwise. "What the health center should be dispensing to unmarried students is advice," he says. "If students want to go beyond that, it should be their responsibility, not the university's." President Pitzer is expected to announce his decision some time after Christmas. He has ample precedent for approving the plan: according to a survey by the American College Health Association at least a dozen colleges already prescribe the pill to unmarried women under...
...Stanford's quality gave him a high goal to work toward when he was at Rice, Pitzer is no less ambitious now. His aim, he says, is "to make Stanford as strong as Harvard and M.I.T. - put together...
...good as his word. And he was so successful at building a Texas copy of the school he considers one of the best in the world that Stanford took particular notice. Last week Stanford paid Pitzer the ultimate compliment: it brought him to Palo Alto to succeed President I.E. Wallace Sterling, 62, who is retiring after 18 years...
Stanford's student leaders were not pleased. They complained that they had not had any voice in the selection, and Student Body President Denis Hayes, who argued that Pitzer had "no recent experience with race relations or student relations," led a move for an unofficial student referendum on the appointment. It is not likely to come to much-especially if Stanford's students take the trouble to look up Pitzer's record at Rice. There he fought successfully to remove an admissions ban on Negro students from the trust agreement under which the university was founded...