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After bein£ away from Oshkosh for six years, Executive Vice Chancellor Robert Polk does not find the campus too much different except for the students. Students are changed from when I was here six years ago. They're more sophisticated; concerned with world problems and institutionally more aware,” he commented. Polk wasn’t taken aback by blue jeans or long hair. Years ago people were poor and a good pair of blue jeans was good, he saia with a smile. As for today’s student he reflected by saying, People want to do their thing. The reason for doing it is important. If it’s for a lark, that’s something else. That’s like an identity crisis; trying to figure out who you are. As though he were keenly aware of the inevitable question, Polk remained cool without facial alteration when asked about his possibility of becoming chancellor. I do not contemplate any administrative position on campus, he stressed. Because I do have an association with this institution that’s why I came back. I have the background knowledge that someone new at it would take too long to learn. Polk was on the committee for the construction of the Fine Arts Building, Library, Nursing-Education Building and the Administrative Wing on Dempsey. He also visits Oshkosh to see his motner and sisters about four or five times a year. Too, he has a son here, Dan, who is a junior majoring in sociology. Thus, as Polk put it, “I've really never felt divorced from Oshkosh. Although many people are leery about the future of this university because of teacher cuts and budget disputes, Polk has an optimistic opinion of its future. 14
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I “I guess I’m not dismayed at the temporary adjustments, he said. “This is just a temporary situation. If students will just realize it will go on because without them it isn't an institution. You have to have students, and they must want to move ahead and be participants in the counsel of the institution and believe in it. He went on to emphasize, Oshkosh is third in the system by 2,000 students. It has more resource capability than a smaller institution. Like Guiles, Polk definitely believes students have power. “Students are making it necessary to change academic modes,” he stated. Polk then gave the example of how the two semester history requirement was changed to a minimum of three areas, a total of nine credits, to be taken. This change occured so that students could expand their interests into other social science areas. Adjustments are necessary, he stressed. We would have changes even if we didn't have a budget readjustment because of the changing mores and curriculum of students. All in all, Polk has faith in Oshkosh because it is viable with great potential. He feels that administrators are valuable vehicles to the institution, but the faculty and the students are what make it. I hope the new chancellor falls into a general turn around,” he said. I want to be sure the integrity of the institution isn’t compromised.” n Quiver 15
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