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A look back at SFU's growing pains…Feeling a little nostalgic about Simon Fraser University's early years with the institution's 40th anniversary only five months away? The SFU history department's 3rd annual John Hutchinson lecture promises to take its audience down memory lane with a lecture by recently retired history professor Hugh Johnston.

A former chair of the department several times over during his 37 years of teaching at SFU, Johnston will deliver The Early History of SFU: A Succession of Crises in the 1960s. The lecture is based on his soon to be published book Radical Campus: Simon Fraser University in the Making-a 350-page review of SFU's early years. “The university attracted a remarkable group of faculty and students during a decade of great ferment among youth internationally,” says Johnston. “The university went through a rapid succession of crises and was a magnet for publicity, good and bad, about its architecture, its promise of innovation, its faculty revolt, and its student protests and demonstrations.”

The upcoming lecture, named after a distinguished history professor who taught at SFU from 1966 until his death in 2002, takes place Friday, April 15, 4-6 p.m., at Halpern Centre on the Burnaby campus.

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