Word: warrens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...poet and novelist Robert Penn Warren summed up the legend of his friend Katherine Anne Porter just before her death in 1980 at the age of 90. Once upon a time there was "a beautiful woman, wanderer in many lands, witty, restless, fanatically devoted to her art, a charming and accomplished conversationalist, and in the end, after all sorts of poverty, rich and famous...
...rally was a response to a proposal by David Warren, dean of the college of Humanities and Social Sciences, to dismantle the Asian Studies, Black Studies, Chicano Studies, Health and Society, and Religious programs in an effort to "streamline" the school...
...Warren has claimed that these programs do not have enough students enrolled as majors and that the programs cost too much to maintain. He questioned whether the programs should exist, saying. "Money and manpower can be better spent improving more traditional departments...
During the rally, the group of dissenters, amidst chants of "Hell no, we won't go," and "Chicano Studies. Black Studies: here today, here to stay," marched to the Large Commons Conference Room, where Rivera. Warren and several other administrators were having lunch...
After several minutes, student leaders were allowed into the conference room. When Ron Balestrien, president of the Graduate Student Council, asked questions regarding the fate of Ethnic studies programs, at UCR, or why Black and Chicano Studies are being scheduled for dismantlement. Warren declined to comment...