Guide to the Stanford University, News Service, Director's
Records
Stanford University Libraries
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
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Overview
Call Number: SC0246
Creator:
Stanford University. News Service.
Title: Stanford University, News Service, director's records
Dates: 1955-1967
Physical Description:
2 Linear feet
Summary: Records cover three topics: Sigma Chi fraternity (issue of
discrimination in membership 1965), Proposition 14 (written in 1964 to overturn
California's Rumford Fair Housing Act, which prohibited discrimination on the basis of
race and national origin), and student demonstrations and the McClellan probe (Permanent
Subcommittee on Investigations headed by U.S. Senator John L. McClellan). Sigma Chi
materials include correspondence, 1955-67, clippings and publications, 1965-67, and
materials relating to a legal case against Sigma Chi in Colorado. The files on
demonstrations and the McClellan probe, 1969, include news releases, drafts of
administrators' statements before the McClellan subcommittee, news on SRI, President
Pitzer's statements before the McClellan subcommittee, and letters from Stanford's legal
service. The files on Proposition 14 include news releases, ads, clippings, newsletters,
housing information, and articles on housing and property values. Major correspondents
include Robert Beyers, Jack H. Friedenthal, Paul E. Kamerick, Kenneth S. Pitzer, and
William R. Rambo.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Administrative Information
Provenance
Administrative transfer 1981.
Information about Access
This collection is open for research.
Ownership & Copyright
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is
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intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission
must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See:
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Cite As
Stanford University, News Service, Director's Records (SC0246). Department of Special
Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford,
Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Robert W. Beyers directed the Stanford news service from 1961 to 1990.
Description of the Collection
Records cover three topics: Sigma Chi fraternity (issue of discrimination in membership
1965), Proposition 14 (written in 1964 to overturn California's Rumford Fair Housing
Act, which prohibited discrimination on the basis of race and national origin), and
student demonstrations and the McClellan probe (Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
headed by U.S. Senator John L. McClellan). Sigma Chi materials include correspondence,
1955-67, clippings and publications, 1965-67, and materials relating to a legal case
against Sigma Chi in Colorado. The files on demonstrations and the McClellan probe,
1969, include news releases, drafts of administrators' statements before the McClellan
subcommittee, news on SRI, President Pitzer's statements before the McClellan
subcommittee, and letters from Stanford's legal service. The files on Proposition 14
include news releases, ads, clippings, newsletters, housing information, and articles on
housing and property values. Major correspondents include Robert Beyers, Jack H.
Friedenthal, Paul E. Kamerick, Kenneth S. Pitzer, and William R. Rambo.
Access Terms
Beyers, Robert W.
Discrimination in education.
Discrimination in housing --California.
Friedenthal, Jack H.
Kamerick, Paul E.
Pitzer, Kenneth S., (Kenneth Sanborn),
1914-1997
Rambo, William R. (William Ralph), 1916-
Stanford Research Institute.
Stanford University. News Service.
Director.
Greek letter societies.
Student movements--California--Stanford
Students--Political activity
Collection Contents
DEMONSTRATIONS, PRESIDENT PITZER, MCCLELLAN PROBE
Box 2, Folder 2
Notes on SRI's counterinsurgency,
1969 Apr 28
Box 2, Folder 3
Senate resolution on SRI
1969 May 2
Box 2, Folder 5
Correspondence from attorney, Wolpman to Pitzer
6/1969
Box 2, Folder 6
Statement of Paul E. Kamerick (ND)
Box 2, Folder 7
McClellan Probe, Drafts of President Pitzer's speech
6/1969
Box 2, Folder 8
Press release on President Pitzer's appearance in D.C.
7/1/1969
Box 2, Folder 9
Letter from President Pitzer to McClellan
6/3/69
Box 2, Folder 10
Correspondence from ACLU to Robert Beyers
5/28/1969
Box 2, Folder 11
President Pitzer's statement before the U.S. Senate
7/1/69
Box 2, Folder 13
Chronological summary of delonstrations at Stanford
Box 2, Folder 14
President Pitzer's speech in vol 56 of the hearings on "Riots, civil
and criminal disorders and disruptions on college campuses."
Box 2, Folder 15
Statement on a Black Panther
6/24/1969
Box 2, Folder 16
President Pitzer's response to demonstrations
6/27/1969
Box 2, Folder 33
Correspondence from Apri 3rd, movement to the Academic
Senate
4/28/1969
Box 3, Folder 2
Sigma Chi, court case, Colorado
1965
Box 3, Folder 4
Article, "When bias begi lls to cost money" by Terry
Ferrer
Box 4, Folder 1
Congressional Record
9/2/1965
Box 5, Folder 2
Correspondence
January - February 1965
Box 5, Folder 3
Correspondence
March - April 1965
Box 5, Folder 6
Correspondence
September - December 1965
Box 5, Folder 7
Correspondence
January - June 1966
Box 5, Folder 8
Correspondence
September - December 1966
Box 5, Folder 12
The Magazine of Sigma Chi
Box 5, Folder 13
Case before the Trustees of the California State
Colleges
1967
