Robert Clark. . .
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But that controversy never
reached the peaks of violence,
emotion or publicity of the war
issue. It is probably safe to say
that now, most University stu
dents —if they even know who the
president is — view him with an
unspecific sort of hostility or just
plain ignore him.
Clark has been almost univer
sally described by intimates as a
“dose” man, “not at all the back
slapping type.” He feels that
seeming introversion may be a
factor which led to little communi
cation between him and the larger
student population. He says one
of his regrets is that traditional
lines of communication, such as
house meetings, dorm meetings
and fall convocations have not
really been open to him.
That directly ties into another of
his major regrets: the fact that a
sense of "comraderie” or "com
munity” has not been fostered at
the University. “A sense of com
munity binds people together. The
professional schools have it, but it
is almost totally lacking in the
large liberal arts areas."
Instrumental in setting up the
Honors College, he said he has
long been an advocate of “ex
perimental colleges” where stu
dents and faculty members would
stay together for as long as three
years exploring alternative means
of education. He says he hopes,
eventually, for such schools to be
set up within the University.
He says he is still convinced of
the workability of another idea
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which received little or no support
at the time he proposed it.
In an effort to get teachers to
increase their teaching loads,
Clark said, “What I wanted to
propose was that at least half of
the teachers increase their teach
ing loads one term by offering one
freshman or sophomore level
seminar limited to fifteen students
and limited to a topic that in
terested the professor.
“If we had four hundred faculty
members offering these courses
through the course of the year, we
would have a wide range of topic
offering the students a wide range
of interest. We could say to every
freshman or sophomore coming
in, ‘you’ll have one term where
you’ll get a small seminar with a
professor on a topic that is of in
terest to you.”
He said he thinks it would be an
idea of tremendous “educational
excitement.”
It hasn’t all been regrets for
Clark, however. He says he is par
ticularly satisfied with what he
terms the protections of “certain
values, and preserving those both
in times of conflict and financial
exigency.”
He says he is also particularly
proud of advances made by stu
dents in their role in the University.
Mentioning student control of inci
dental fees and student participa
tion in faculty committees and in
the University Senate, he said
"Student participation is real and I
think it’s more clearly defined than
it was before. For example, stu
dent goverance in the dormitories
and their freedom from being
forced to live the dormitories.”
"These are real advances in the
autonomy of individuals."
For the future, Clark said he
would take a sabbatical leave
from the University of which he
has been named the first "Presi
dent Emeritus.”
He and his wife Opal have a
house on Mercer Lake, near the
coast and one suspects that's
where he'll spend much of his time
writing and exploring the woods
with a copy of Henry David
Thoreau’s Walden under his arm.
To describe him as a “nature
lover” would be an understate
ment of gigantic proportions. For
fully a third of a recent interview,
he lovingly described the trees on
campus, some of which were
“barely hop high when I came
here,” he says.
Almost caressing an imaginary
tulip-tree blossom as he de
scribed it, he said, “I think my love
of the campus is intensified be
cause many of the trees seem to
be my personal friends.”
Until Clark retires, he will con
tinue to spend every spare mo
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some creatures use their snout
and fore paws, and with it I would
mine and burrow my way through
these hills. I think that the richest
vein is somewhere hereabouts; so
by the divining-rod and thin rising
vapors I judge; and here I will
begin to mine."
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