Brown University - Liber Brunensis Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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ESTEEMED beyond the prestige asso- ciated with his status, Assistant Dea.n of the College, Robert O, Schultze is himself a social institution at Brown. For it is he who brings the theys down to the we's!! His contact with the undergraduate takes place in sociology classes, his office, Convocation and through his daily 'notices in the BDH, As casual at the above as in the Blue Room, Dean Schultze is as understand- ing and as liberal an administrator s any campus is likely to have. A Yalie originally Robert E LIl Al Dean of Students, is well prepared for dealing with an occasional riot. On call 24 hours a day, it has been more than once that Dean Hill has relocated stu- dents after a fire or rumble with one's roommates.

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SERVING in the capacity of both administrator and professor, Charles H. Watts, Dean of the College, queslions students about their various academic worries and social frivolities. Seldom is there a time when one of the undergraduates is not attempting to gain passage into his spacious office to gather hints for academic success. Or a fraternity presi- dent might be pleading the social cause wondering why his brothers will be limited to six parties for the oncoming semester. Also, a frequent speech by the dean at a convocation is worthy of note, For instance, he recently stated that the only real prob lem in education is that of 'too much new knowl- edge of ourselves and the world.! At ancther time, a key to the University's approach to education and to the bicentennial program was dropped by Dean Watts ot the Alumni Advisory Council meeting. He stressed the need for research af a university stating that it liberalizes both faculty and students and prepares them to deal with new idess. His ulti- mate aim was expressed in the need of research as the step fowards greatness for the University. This year, Watts received a well deserved grant from the Carnegie Foundation to study educational sys- tems In various universities during the vear's second semester. w N A N N e l

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UNSURPASSED VITALITY was brought to Brown by the Reverend Charles A. Baldwin when he was appointed as Chaplain of the University in 1958. He came to Providence in 1953 55 Assstant Minister of the Central Congregational Church and in 1955 became Associate Minister. Mr. Badwin was given his Bachelor of Divinity by Yale and in 1959 receivec his M.A. ad eunden from Brown. One of the most active members of the com munity, Mr. Baldwin is on the boards of the Urban league of Rhode Island, American Civil Liberties Union, State Council of Churches, and the Rhode lsland Committee on Discrimination in Housing. His liberal views affected the campus with the change in the compulsory chapel system two years ago. Provost Zenas Randall Bliss is one of the men in University Hall whom the student rarely sees. Between making policy decisions and approving professorship appointments, he is allowed little time to stroll the campus. The role of provost is likened fo that of the position of an executive vice president. Mr. Bliss is second-in-command to the president and is Dr. Keeney's direct representative for the three divisions of the University Brown, Pembroke, and the Graduate Schooll. His posi- tion also ties him to the University s financial conditions.