[Letter from Fred Harrington to University's Students, May 20, 1964] Page: 4 of 4
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I enjoyed a considerable number of opportunities this year to get out around
the state and nation and visit alumni groups, and had a broad variety of questions
put to me. Let me list a few I found easiest to answer:
What are you doing for women? Enrolling them in record numbers; on the
Madison campus this year men increased 10. 9 per cent, women 13. 2 per cent.
We established the E. B. Fred Graduate Fellowships for women, honoring
our emeritus president who turned 77 this year (and who worked on his
birthday). We awarded our first Ph. D. in astronomy to a woman. And we
liberalized women's hours -- the old 10:30 and 12:30 nights are almost a
thing of the past. (We rank eighth among American colleges and universities
in alumni listed in "Who's Who of American Women. ")
Any new international programs? We are beginning a junior year in Germany
at Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiburg, continuing our junior years in
France, India, and Mexico. A Ford Foundation grant is now supporting in
Madison a unique Asian theatre program, along with five area study programs:
African, East Asian, Ibero-American, Indian, and Russian. We also have
Buddhist Studies, Comparative Tropical History, Hebrew and Arabic Studies,
Scandinavian Studies, International Theatre, and the Land Tenure Center.
We have 1, 128 foreign students from 95 nations on the Madison campus who
are doing well academically but are experiencing some problems, mainly in
the English language, in housing, and -- as all of us are -- in money.
UW-Milwaukee now is a Peace Corps training center.
Any good ruckus this year? It has been relatively quiet, for Wisconsin. The
School of Education in Madison won a match with the National Council for
Accreditation of Teacher Education. Faculty and regents settled a friendly
joust over physical education by cutting the requirement and eliminating credits
for what remained compulsory. Midwest Universities lost to President Johnson
their fight for a $150-million MURA atom smasher which was to be located
near the Madison campus, but we lent Economics Professor Robert Lampman
to the White House for its "war on poverty. " Our team won the "Alumni Fun"
contest on television. Milwaukee campus students included in their literary
magazine poems their printer would not print. Student government at Madison
sponsored a symposium on dissent which brought complaints from some that a
Communist was included, and from almost as many that it included Governor
George Wallace, who later entered the Wisconsin presidential primary and
drew a surprising number of votes. Yes, it has been a relatively quiet year,
for Wisconsin. We hope many alumni return on Alumni Weekend, June 5-8,
to see for themselves.
Co>tilly
Fred Harvey Harr i gton
President
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