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...trustees of sleepy little Glassboro State College in southern New Jersey are certainly not rude. Overwhelmed by a munificent $100 million pledge from a local businessman named Henry Rowan, the trustees last week not only voted to take the money but, in an expression of gratitude bordering on the fulsome, also decided to rename the school Rowan College of New Jersey. A self-effacing manufacturer of industrial furnaces who attended Williams College and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rowan declared himself flattered by the gesture. He had not asked for the name change; it was simply their...
...drying up. As a result, fund raisers have been compelled more and more to rely on big-bucks givers like Robert W. Woodruff -- former Coca-Cola chairman, whose $105 million gift to Georgia's Emory University in 1979 stands as the biggest single donation to any private college (Rowan's is the largest gift to a public college) -- or Stanford University alums David Packard and his wife Lucile, who gave their school $70 million in 1986 for a children's medical center...
...thing to give a philanthropist a building and quite something else to give him a whole college. The Rowan gift in fact did not gladden everybody at Glassboro. At least one alumnus has threatened to go to court, charging that the trustees, in a fit of non campus mentis, have simply sold the college to Rowan. That complaint may not be fair, but it does raise the question of what it takes to buy into an institution of learning nowadays. If Glassboro can be bought, as it were, for $100 million, you can probably get Yale for $109 million...
...debate" over "family values" and Hollywood's treatment of them. And so he did. A New York Daily News headline set the tone: QUAYLE TO MURPHY BROWN: YOU TRAMP! Switchboards at the White House and on TV and radio talk shows lit up with callers, pro and con. Carl Rowan, a liberal black columnist, sided with Quayle, while Hillary Clinton, wife of the Democratic presidential contender, panned him as typical of "an Administration out of touch with America" and its growing ranks of single mothers...
...Rowan has more than a little experience with strange and difficult stories. He joined LIFE as a correspondent in China in 1948 and spent, in separate assignments, 15 years in Asia as bureau chief for LIFE and TIME in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Saigon. He covered the fall of Shanghai, the Korean War, the Mayaguez crisis and the fall of Saigon. In between, he ran LIFE bureaus in Rome, Bonn and Chicago and was national-affairs editor and assistant managing editor of LIFE. Among his many accomplishments at our sister publication was a pretty good personnel move: he trained...