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...What is President Wriston trying to do?" cried one Brown University alumnus. "Go back to the Middle Ages?" What had excited the alumnus was the plan for a new two-block, $10 million quadrangle, announced last week by Henry M. Wriston, as part of a long-term project to centralize student housing...
...such an unusual design, President Wriston had his reason and it had nothing to do with medievalism. For some time the Brown campus, with university-owned houses scattered over several Providence blocks, had been easy prey for sneak thieves. In one year they had made 'off with more than $8,000 worth of student property. President Wriston thought that the stockade would put a stop to that...
Bruins figured that the new layout would put a stop to something else: the traditional rambunctiousness of the fraternities. During pledge week last winter, fraternity high jinks ended in one student death, several hundred dollars worth of property damage, and a finger-shaking from President Wriston, who called the fraternities "discriminatory, nondemocratic, and anti-intellectual...
...Money won't solve everything," Wriston said. "It wont make our present teachers smarter and it won't end discrimination. What we need is public attention and a change in our values...
President Conant also praised the law's provision giving every state at least $5 per student. Wriston and that many states didn't need the money, and the $5 was like "building a lighthouse in Kansas...