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...Teen-agers in 50 states, voting on a presidential ballot circulated by Wesleyan University's three school publications, picked Nixon (441,900) over Kennedy (324,065). Overall, the Democrats (Kennedy, Stevenson, Johnson, Humphrey and Symington) won 515,466 votes against Nixon. Wesleyan's 1956 classroom poll of nonvoters came within 1.3% of predicting the proportion of the popular vote given Eisenhower...
...Small. Victor Butterfield has an exciting alternative: Wesleyan's new "College Plan," this year's shrewdest innovation in independent study. After World War II, Wesleyan elected to stay small-and get better. It stiffened courses, doubled the faculty, lured lively outside lecturers. But "a kind of diminishing return" seemed apparent. Instead of "catching the intellectual contagion." says Butterfield, students merely became "more dutiful." Another problem: What moral right did Wesleyan have to turn away a growing flood of able applicants...
This year Wesleyan decided to get bigger (doubling enrollment by 1970)-and yet "stay small." The goal set by Butterfield, once a canny star quarterback at Cornell: a large federation of small colleges, each with its own faculty and students devoted to a common field of study...
Last week, delighted by progress so far, Wesleyan's board of trustees approved a third school, the College of Quantitative Studies (math). Equally enthusiastic, facultymen are working on plans for a College of Behavioral Sciences and a College of Contrasting Cultures (American, Slavic, Oriental). The ultimate goal is a complete reorganization of Wesleyan...
President Butterfield is still under standably cautious. "Can average American college students handle this freedom?" he muses. The evidence is not all in yet. But Wesleyan has certainly launched an embryo revolution. Says 20-year-old Larry Jones of Ames, Iowa: "This program has made me realize for the first time what education actually is. So many of the decorations are stripped away. We no longer complete an assignment and feel we've completed a day. This kind of education involves you-all the time...