Santa Clara Snapshot: 1970

30 years later: Check out these stats from the seventies.

Justine Macauley ’10 and Kellie Quist ’10
12 Dec 2010

3 philosophy courses required to graduate
4 days of classes (M-T-Th-F)
31 buildings
100 people at United Farm Workers Organizing Committee meeting to discuss union-only lettuce purchase for the campus dining services
233 professors
700 students boycott classes and join a teach-in to protest U.S. military action in Cambodia
$1,725 tuition per year
5,902 students enrolled

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The 1970 challenge: How many bedframes can SCU undergrads stack on top of one another? Photo: SCU Archives