Education: Orange Crush

The University of California (eight campuses, 10,000 acres, more than 43,000 students) is convinced that it isn't big enough. Last week, the Board of Regents announced that it would build a new $6,000,000 liberal arts college on one of its smaller campuses—the Citrus Experiment Station at Riverside (900 acres), where now only a handful of graduate students in citriculture take up all the space. The new college will accommodate over 1,000 students. That, said the regents, was just the first step in taking care of the state's growing college population—which ought to have 277,087 students to draw from by 1965.

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