More Stilwell -- The Academic Centers

Continuing the digital restoration of "Stilwell" cartoons, the comic strip that ran in the Cleveland State University student weekly, The Cauldron, 1971-73, this one was obviously ripped from the headlines of the student rag back in the day. As I recall, CSU's honchos, or the Board of Regents, whoever, had made a decision to close down the university's satellite campus operations in the suburbs of the Cleveland area and concentrate operations on the main campus just east of downtown. You can glean from the dialogue that the satellites were penciling out financially, but that perhaps the quality standards of classes there were not as rigidly adhered to as they were on the main campus. It appears, from the lettering on the bulletin board, that the setting is Lakewood High School, repurposed for college classes at night. And the implication of the gag line is that those attending classes in the suburbs were unhappy about the closings, in part, because they worried about the crime rate of the downtown campus' environs. After 40 years, I have no idea how many of the aforementioned details are accurate, but there's your context. This one ran on Leap Day, Feb. 29, 1972.