Word: pitzer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...Stanford, President Kenneth Pitzer posted guards outside the ROTC classroom building to repel antiwar student raiders. The move came in response to two weeks of almost daily rallies and vandalism inspired by a recent faculty vote that may restore academic credit (barred last April) to ROTC. During the turmoil, one student was found trying to turn his Mustang into a fire bomb by soaking it with gasoline. On April Fools' Day, a masked assailant poured a bucket of red paint over Pitzer...