Radical Campus: Making Simon Fraser University
Reference & Research Book News, August, 2006
Radical campus; making Simon Fraser University.
Johnston, Hugh.
Douglas & McIntyre
2005
382 pages
$45.00
Hardcover
LE3
Johnston (emeritus history, Simon Fraser U.) offers the fullest account yet of his home institution's radical early days. Simon Fraser was founded in 1965 in Burnaby, British Columbia, and was created in a record two and a half years. Johnston begins by describing how B.C. minister of education Gordon Shrum guided its creation and ends with an epilogue discussing the university today. Other topics include the first students and the rise of student radicalism, the novice professors and experimental teaching of the mid-1960s, the student occupation of the administration offices in 1968 and events leading up to it, and the 1969 strike by students and faculty in the Politics, Sociology & Anthropology Department. Many b&w photos are included.
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