Brown University - Liber Brunensis Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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7 Illlllllllllb 4 lt doesnt take long for most students to realize the abysmal lack of facilities at Brown. For instance, have you ever tried . . . finding a parking space seeing a Cornell game at Meehan watching a play or movie in Faunce House pit using library facilities for physics and bio simultaneously receiving immediate medical aid at Andrews House if you're a girl finding a small humanities course which interests you meeting members of your coordinate institution living in most university housing attending a class in Whitehall Nevermore, quoth the Raven. Brown has launched its $92 million capital funds drive to build long overdue projects and implement the liberated curriculum. On the docket are decade-old plans for

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Brown slowly faces up to a housing crisis in space and quality, and a breakdown in community relations. By the fall, the university approves a coed housing project, discards in loco parentis, discusses renovation in cur- rent dorms and plans for new resi- dences. It creates a community rela- tions board, halts the off-campus flow, and returns to the concept of a residential college. The $4.3 million Bryant purchase promises to mitigate land and housing shortage without harming the local community. Coed College Diman-Pi Lamb, one of the country's most progressive coed projects, and the lvy League's first, meets students desires to live in a mature and normal manner. With the prospect of campus-wide coed living and new apartment-type hous- ing for students, Brown has a chance to demonstrate its leadership in creat- ing an environment appropriate for an institution of higher learning.

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Athletics, Performing Arts, Humanities, Geo- Math Sci. and Residential Centers. Even Political Science has been assured a few more professors. Sages have queried whether Brown, with lll other small private colleges, can outlast the decade. The Program for the Seventies hopes to insure the future of this venerable institution. Just to make sure Brown would survive the next few years, the Corporation raised tuition, room and board by $400. With two donations already totalling $4 mil- lion and the possibility of foundation grants for education, Brown may be back on the road from its annual million dollar deficits and meager facilities. While campus atmosphere and quality of education seem more important than spend- ing money on building, the Program for the Seventies promises to integrate both and solidify Brown's leadership in the field of education.