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...that help put life in broad perspective. This often takes the form of a demand for religious studies. At student request, Rutgers will offer a religion major for the first time this year, while at the University of Wisconsin's Milwaukee campus a student-organized poll led to regent approval of a new Department of Religious Studies. A similar desire for scanning a broader scene led engineering students at Claremont's Harvey Mudd College to secure a humanities course on "man, science and society...
...board's action, summed up Regent William M. Roth, "is like keeping your virginity and having...
Where Murphy needed help was in assembling the sculpture. Actress Anna Bing Arnold (who performed in the 1930s under the stage name of Anna Kostant) contributed Anna Mahler's show-bizzy Tower of Masks for the entrance to Macgowan Hall. In 1964 the U.C.L.A. Arts Council and Regent Norton Simon bought Lipchitz' Song of the Vowels. The bulk of the collection came from the estate of David E. Bright, a Los Angeles industrialist who died in 1965. Bright left the Moore, a Hepworth, another Lipchitz, and two pieces that are far and away the most popular with...
Despite the complexities of the job, most regents find the work stimulating, devote roughly a month's time to the task each year. "It's like being a den mother for 30,000 students," claims University of Michigan Regent Mrs. Gertrude Huebner, who delights in the varied advice she is asked to give. One mother wrote to ask whether her coed daughter should sing in a nightclub. "I want to investigate to see whether there's enough smoke in the air to damage her throat before answering," says Mrs. Huebner...
...public servants are more convinced of the worth of what they do than are university regents. California Regent William Forbes, president of a music firm, concedes that his service as a regent, which takes about 30% of his time, is the biggest thing in his life because "the hope of mankind lies in educating as many people as best...