Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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W. Glenn Campbell Director, Hoover Institution Stanford University’s Hoover Institution on War. Revolution, and Peace has quickly become the nation’s first influential conservative think tank. The Institution has currently had an impact on national domestic policy with many proposals by Hoover scholars being favorably mentioned by Ford Administration officials. The Institution's move into domestic research, and inevitably into political brain-trusting, came in 1960 when W. Glenn Campbell became director. The Hoover Institution has long been the nation’s major academic storehouse of documents on 20th century political, social, and economic movements. The library, housed in Hoover Tower, includes six principal area collections: Africa, East Asia, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union (Russia). Latin America, the Middle East, and Western Europe. Holdings include books, pamphlets, government documents, and newspapers and periodicals, as well as the private papers of prominent individuals. The Institution has its own resident research staff of economists, political scientists, and historians that includes both visiting and resident scholars. Research programs focus on basic research, documentary, and policy, studies in both international and domestic areas. Campbell, himself a conservative economist, concedes to the political conservatism of the Institution. But he insists, ‘We only look conservative when compared to the rest of the Stanford community, which is basically liberal. He added, We have no party line on research. Campbell’s skillful recruitment of such traditionally liberal scholars as philosopher Sidney Hooks and former Harvard sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset attests to this fact. Left: W. Glenn Campbell with Russian novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn. 27

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Kenneth M. Cuthburtson Vice-President of Development Kenneth M. Cuthburtson. Vice-President of Development. has the overwhelming and ambitious task of planning for the entire gift and pledge procurement program for Stanford University— In essence. Cuthburtson is the mastermind behind the staff and volunteer organizations currently engaged in the intensive 5-year $300 million fund-raising drive. As of December 1975, the campaign had passed the $213 million mark with two years still remaining in achieving the target goal. The University is not only dependent upon gifts which can be expended soon after they are received, but also on the addition of gifts to the endowment which builds up the longterm reserves for the University. The endowment is in turn invested, with the resulting income effectively utilized by the University in countless ways. Three or four years before the campaign. stated Cuthburtson. “we were raising over $30 million annually. From our long-range planning, we figured we would require over $50 million a year. In addition to fulfilling our financial goals, our campaign will result in an on-going upward trend in support. We haven’t received a $40 million gift receipt for a single year as of yet, but we may before our remaining two years are up. The main thrust of the $300 million campaign is to raise funds for: 1) A new research addition to the Main Library. The library is the very heart of the University, commented Cuthburtson. And we’re very far behind in providing the adequate facilities. The plan calls for $20 million. $7 million of which has already been raised. The Board of Trustees has been asked to allocate the funds to begin the architectural plans and to go to bid. If the fund-raising and plans are completed by 1976, the addition may immediately go into construction. 2) Renovation of the Main Quad. The multi-story buildings of the Main Quad are being rebuilt with a new steel or reinforced concrete structure from inside for added stability against earthquakes. Renovation costs are equal to the costs involved in building a completely new structure. 3) Endowed student aid, fellowship funds, and scholarship funds, and 4) Faculty support, in the form of special endowment and endowed professorship. Building projects already underway are being financed in part by the campaign: the Termin Engineering Center, across from the Student Publications building, completion of the Law School buildings, a new chemistry building beyond the old chemistry center, and the Fairchild Center at the Stanford Medical Center for the advancement of the neurosciences. . 6 The most rewarding experience for Cuthburtson during his 21-year career at the University was the work done toward receiving a very large grant from the Ford Foundation — a $25 million challenge grant which encouraged the University to match the grant with $75 million. At that time, a study was conducted placing Stanford’s graduate program at the top of the second 12 top graduate schools in the country. Cuthburtson remarked. We were at the top of the second rank, as compared to other established institutions such as Harvard, Yale. Princeton. and the like. In a recent ranking. Stanford's graduate program has been ranked third after Harvard and Berkeley. In one way or another, all areas of the University are indebted to Cuthburtson for his unceasing efforts.

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Hubert Marshall Political Science LBJ and Nixon probably didn’t intend to. but they had the effect of assassinating our constitution.” says Prof. Hubert Marshall of the Political Science Department. “We now have a serious problem on our hands. Public polls have tried to measure the effects of these recent events on popular conceptions of the government. If we went back about 10 years, two-thirds of the American people had substantial confidence in Washington. Now the figures are reversed: two out of three say they have no confidence — the government does not know what it’s doing. “The machinery of our system is good. says Marshall. Advice is generally reliable and intelligence is fairly accurate. But if this lack of confidence in our government spreads to the extent that we lose confidence in each other, he foresees that our society as a whole will be the loser. Sure, it's interesting to watch Nixon sink: to see McGovern support Eagleton 1000% and then, a week later, dump him completely. Bu: though it can be a circus, it is also deadly serious The quality of the political and social life of a people depends on politics. In spite of this. Marshall remains optimistic abou' our country’s future — though he admits being somewhat critical of the way our government functions a: times in his lectures. He sees it as a challenge to cleat away students’ illusions, to teach what student! never learned in high school government and civic classes — realism without cynicism. “It’s not as dirtj a business as people maintain, he says. There art . some very dedicated people who could do a lot better monetarily had they gone into business instead. For Marshall, the chief rewards of teaching lie it helping to provide a better understanding of the ■ American system. ■ 28