Word: stookey
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Developed at Indiana University by Dr. Joseph C. Muhler and Dr. George Stookey, the prophylactic paste embodies more than 20 times the fluoride concentration of toothpastes now on drug-store shelves. The sweet-tasting paste polishes teeth as well. Dr. Muhler, who developed Crest, the first patented stannous-fluoride toothpaste, is a staunch supporter of fluoridating water supplies. But such efforts are not enough, he maintains. Only 155 million of 200 million persons in the U.S. are served by treatable public water supplies. Of them, only 82 million now drink water containing natural or supplemented fluoride. Muhler compounded...
...faculty may be even more enthusiastic about Santa Cruz than the kids. Creating a new campus, says Director of Academic Planning Byron Stookey Jr., is "a little like finding yourself on the beach, alone, with a beautiful girl and a full moon on a warm night-there is great opportunity, but you must make the very most of the opportunity." In an ingenious device to keep the teaching and research duties of the faculty in balance, teachers draw half their pay from their college, half from campus-wide "boards of studies" that supervise their academic fields...
...Stookey begins at the most basic level by explaining his understanding of the aims of higher education. Too often, goals are either mechanistic--fitted to existing facilities in a university--or ritualistic--vague and over general phrases like "educating people for a democracy." "We have a right," he suggests, "to ask of an institution just exactly what its aims are . . . a right to expect these aims to be true ones; not, in the university for instance, curricular tautologies. Education is presumably an enterprise whose end is larger than its means." He quotes from Clark Kerr's The Uses...
...Departmental strength will be seriously circumscribed and the colleges will become the center of political strength within the broader university culture. At Harvard, the college has been losing a defensive war for two decades; at Santa Cruz, the colleges will have necessary prominence. In short, starting from scratch, says Stookey, means that in "each college the University will have what every large institution must finally devise; a place where experiment can occur without threat to the whole enterprise...
...Stookey's essay is must reading, even, or perhaps especially, for those dulled to immobility by the Gen Ed debate at Harvard. But its excellence and importance, its partial fulfillment of the goals outlined for this issue are qualities too rarely seen and demonstrates what The Harvard Review can do but does not do often enough...