Interviews 91 - 100

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Support for Chemistry graduate students; Orientation for Chemistry TAs; Teaching problems and guidance needs; Contact with faculty; Class size; TAA membership recruitment; Control of class content; Graduate students in faculty meetings; Chemistry colloquia; Research and teaching; Wages for teaching and research assistants; Job outlook; Grading; Chemistry Department personalities.

Educational background; History faculty in early 1960s; Facilities in Bascom Hall; Department expansion; Hiring policies; Interdisciplinary teaching; Divisions in Department; Graduate student revolt of mid-1960s; Ford Foundation fellowships; Students in faculty meetings; Department chairmanship; TAA and TA Strike of 1970; Dean Kleene; Effects of TAA contract; Peer review; Committee for review of ROTC.

Move to Humanities Building; Parkside and Green Bay campuses; Research funding for humanities and social sciences; Faculty governance; Campus planning; Salary and Fringe Benefits Committee; Task force on faculty retirement; Department chairmanship.

Background; Disposal of war explosives; Land use planning and development; Colleagues and associates; County zoning; Relocation of isolated settlers; Land planning and tax delinquency; UW service to state.

Background; TA activists; TA-faculty relations; Recruiting for TAA; Class size in German Department; TA Strike of 1970; Experiences at Brown University compared with UW; Undergraduate role in Strike; Graduate Women's Caucus; TAA leaders; German Department problems; Role of women in TAA; Survey of women graduate students; Discrimination against women at UW.

Title IX and establishment of director of women's intercollegiate athletics position; Discrimination against women athletes; Budget problems; Recruitment of coaches; Student athletic trainers; Publicity for women's events; Women's crew; High school athletic programs for women; Athletic scholarships; Women on men's teams; Travel funds; UW Athletic Board; Facility inequalities; Injuries; Junior varsity teams.

96.   SCHAARS, Marvin A.  (1902-1986 )
Undergraduate and Graduate Student; Professor of Agricultural Economics
At UW: 1920-1972

Interviewed: 1973	Length: 4 hours	Transcript: 92 pages
Interviewer: Donna Taylor

Educational background; Early days of Agricultural Economics Department; Colleagues and associates; Development of farm cooperatives; Legislation regarding courses; UW Athletic Board; Boxing and basketball; University Bookstore; Committees; UW democracy; Research vs. teaching; Observations about UW.

Background; Introduction to TAA; Recruiting French TAs; TA meetings; TAA leaders; TA Strike of 1970; Anti-war movement; Association of Faculty Women; Joan Roberts case; French Department; Studies and teaching; Women's studies; Feminist Criticism Collective; Women's meetings at Modern Language Association; Job market; French House.

Background; Dow Protests; Effects of expansion and Vietnam War on relationships in Political Science Department; University Senate; Effects of professionalization; Rift between faculty and administration; Political Science Department; Issues of governance and communication among faculty; Southeast Asia program; Teaching and students; Ph.D. for Development program; Land Tenure Center; Effect of family commitments on scholarship.

Aldo Leopold and conservation; Wisconsin's deer problem; State Department of Conservation; Land and resource problems in politics; Kickapoo Reservoir issue; Natural Resource Council of State Agencies; Trout Lake; Horicon Marsh project; Scientific Areas Preservation Council; Groups opposing DNR; Land acquisition; Sandhill Game Farm; Opposition to scientists; Marsh drainage; Water rights; Isaac Walton League; Department of Conservation; UW faculty conservationists; Pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers; Opposing views of botanist, forester and environmentalist; Chemical poisoning of lakes; DNR's problems; Friends of the Earth; Population control.

Background; Experiences as UW graduate student; WWII activities; German Department after 1945; Faculty-student relationships; German Department TAs; TA Strike and Dow Protests; Work in Extension; Effects of Merger of General Extension with Agricultural Extension and Radio-Television; Work and teaching.

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