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Show BOARD OF REGENTS grapples with University problems Faced with one of the most challenging years in University of Utah history the Board of Regents, headed by Chairman Donald B. Hol-brook, made historical decisions in 1968. Beginning with a landmark decision in August, the adoption of the AAUP statement on student rights and freedoms, the Regents endorsed student freedom to demonstrate to display dissent. The Board faced the statement in action in October when over 300 U students staged a march on the Capitol to show their dissatisfaction with the state's cut in University appropriations and the consequent proposed tuition increase. The Regents, with student opinion in mind, declined to raise tuition for the 1967-68 school year. The 1967-68 football fiasco next occupied the Board, as Coach Giddings and the entire football coaching staff resigned in a surprise flurry of snow jobs in early December. The Board, composed of 17 members, sets University policy. BOARD OF REGENTS - Front: Mrs, John Higginson, Edward W. Clyde, Donald B. Holbrook (Chairman), James C. Fletcher, Richard L Evans, Calvin W. Rowlings. Back: Parry D. Sorensen, L. S. Skaggs, Jr., Joseph E. Bernolfo, Jr., Burtis R. Evans, Roy W. Simmons, Luke G. Pappas, Glen E. Snow. Not Pictured: Robert H. Hinckley, Wayne H. Burt, Clyde L Miller, George S. Eccles. 117 |