The collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, press releases, photographs, maps, and other documents concerning various events and controversies dealt with by the Public Affairs Office, 1960-1980. Subjects include the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford Industrial Park, Ladera Dam and flood control on the San Francisquito Creek, Stanford in Britain overseas campus, dismissal of H. Bruce Franklin, ROTC on campus, the Winds of Freedom Foundation, and the inauguration of university president Kenneth S. Pitzer. Includes audio tapes of a press conference on KZSU with Stanford President Richard W. Lyman, May 30, 1972; and of a talk by John Kaplan to the Los Angeles Stanford Club on the Bakke case.

The University Relations Office acted as liaison between the University and the public. The office was renamed the Public Affairs Office in December 1974 and was enlarged to include federal, state, and community government relations as well as other University relations activities.

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