The use of Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores as one of the factors in admission was challenged by students in 1987 in a referendum recommending that the SAT be an optional requirement.Admission
The separate offices of admission and financial aid merged in July 1987.Admission
Alan P. Maynard, who had been Director of Financial Aid since 1974, retired in 1987; James H. Rogers, who had been Director of Admission since 1969, resigned in 1988; and Eric Widmer was named Dean of Admission and Financial Aid.Admission
The Foundation holds annual winter weekend sports-related events, which have featured as guests Penn State coach Joe Paterno ’50 in 1984, broadcaster Howard Cosell in 1985, broadcaster Frank Gifford in 1986, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach in 1987, and Minnesota Vikings tight end Steve Jordan ’82 in 1988.Athletics
In 1987 the procession was accompanied for the first time by the playing of bag pipes.Commencement
The words on the plaque placed in the Brown University Computing Laboratory in 1987 are, "given by Thomas J. Watson, Jr. ’37, son, and Jeannette K. Watson, wife, in honor of Thomas J. Watson, Sr., who, from the days of the punched card tabulators to the first years of the computer era, led IBM, as chairman, to the creation of machines that would attack the great problems of science and mathematics previously out of the reach of human capability."Computing Laboratory
The position of Dean of the College was reestablished in 1974 with Thomas F. Bechtel, who had been Dean of Counseling, as acting dean, followed by Walter Massey from 1975 to 1979, Harriet Sheridan from 1979 to 1987, Sheila Blumstein from 1987 to 1997, Nancy Dunbar from 1998 through December 2000, and Paul Armstrong from January 2001 through June 2006.Dean
Classes in Korean were started by Visiting Lecturer Yeon Lee Choi in 1987.East Asian Studies
New faculty members in the 1970s included Allan Feldman in 1971, J. Vernon Henderson and William Poole in 1974, and in the 1980s Louis Putterman in 1980, Rajiv Vohra in 1983, Oded Galor and Robert Moffitt in 1984, Peter Garber in 1985, Talbot Page in 1986, Anthony Lancaster in 1987, and Mark Pitt in 1989.Economics
The Center for the Advancement of College Teaching, with Harriet Sheridan as director, was established in 1987 to prepare graduate students as teaching assistants and teaching fellows for professional careers.Education
John Rosenberg was named coach in 1984 and had three winning seasons from 1984 to 1987, including a second place in the Ivy League in 1987, before a losing streak of fourteen games in the 1988 and 1989 seasons, which was finally broken by Brown’s defeat of Cornell on October 19, 1989.Football
The awards were presented in 1986 to Thomas J. Watson, Jr. ’37 and Kathryn Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space, in 1987 to Vernon Alden ’45 and Joseph Paterno ’50, in 1988 to Artemis A. W. Joukowsky ’55, businessman H. Ross Perot, and former president Howard Swearer, in 1989 to President Gregorian and Federal Reserve Chairman Paul A. Volcker, in 1990 to Charles C. Tillinghast ’32 and Robert Edward "Ted" Turner ’60, and in 1991 to Apple Computer president Stephen P. Jobs, Marvin Bower ’25, and Nancy L. Buc ’65.Independent Award
Candis Russell coached from 1981 to 1987, and Wendy Anderson from 1988 to 1992.Lacrosse
On April 12, 1987 the Chorus and Orchestra, sponsored by the Brown Club of New York, performed in a benefit concert in Carnegie Hall and raised $20,000 for financial aid.Musical Clubs
Edward Bloom was succeeded as senior editor by Mark Spilka in 1987.Novel
Professor Chisholm ’38, who remained at Brown until his retirement in 1987, turned down many offers to teach elsewhere, but did accept visiting professorships at Harvard, Princeton, the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois in Urbana, and the University of California in Santa Barbara, and frequently taught at the University of Graz and the University of Würzburg in Austria.Philosophy
The Pizzitola Sports Center, built in 1987 and 1988 and opened in February 1989, is named the Paul Bailey Pizzitola Memorial Sports Center in memory of Paul Bailey Pizzitola ’81, whose father contributed two million dollars toward its construction.Pizzitola Sports Center
Studies for the doctorate in political science were temporarily discontinued in 1975, but reinstated in 1987.Political Science
(1982), "The "The American High School" (1984), "Cost vs. Care: America’s Health Care Dilemma (1985), "Keeping America at Work" (1986), "Crime in America" (1987), "Ethics is American Public Life" (1988), "The Changing American Family" (1989), "Our Fragile Earth: Strategies for Survival (1990), "Free Expression after 200 Years" (1991), and "Who Will Save the American City?"Providence Journal–Brown University Public Affairs Conference
Brown won the Intercollegiate Rowing Association championship in 1983, 1986, and 1987.Rowing
In 1987 the Brown crew won both the Eastern Sprints and the Intercollegiate Rowing Association championship, and narrowly (by 46 one-hundredths of a second) missed winning the Cincinnati Regatta.Rowing
The team has also toured extensively, to Ireland in 1983, to England and Wales in 1985, to Scotland in 1987, to Trinidad in 1988, to Ireland in 1990, and to England and Wales in 1991.Rugby
From 1980 to 1990 Brad Dellenbaugh ’76 coached sailing, and Brown turned out a series of All-Americans, Douglas Smith in 1984, James Cummiskey ’85 in 1985, Paul Grimes ’86 in 1985 and 1986, David Ullrich ’87 in 1986 and 1987, Molly Starkweather ’86 in 1986, Kevin Hall ’91 in 1988, 1990, and 1991, Kris Farrar ’91 in 1989, 1990, and 1991, and Mike Zani ’92 in 1990 and 1991.Sailing
Brown won the intercollegiate women’s sailing championship in 1985, 1988, and 1989, and came in second in in 1986, 1987, and 1990.Sailing
The 1987 team finished with an 8-7 record, the best since 1983, when the record was 10-4-1 overall with a second place (5-2) finish in the Ivy League.Soccer
Pincince’s teams won the Ivy League championship in 1980, and every year from 1982 through 1990, tying with Princeton in 1982 and with Cornell in 1987.Soccer
Brown has had three four-time All-Ivy choices, Colleen O’Day ’86 from 1982 to 1985, Theresa Hirschauer ’89 from 1985 to 1988, and Suzanne Bailey ’91 from 1987 to 1990.Soccer
Lisa Gawlak ’89 was selected for the All-Ivy team four times from 1986 to 1989, and Theresa Hirschauer ’89 three-times, in 1986, 1987, and 1989.Softball
In 1987 a disruption of a Corporation meeting by Students Against Apartheid demanding total divestment in South Africa resulted in the placing of twenty students on probation.Student protests
The inauguration of the Center took place on March 12-14, 1987, and included an addresss by Peace Corps Director Loret M. Ruppe and several workshops and forums.Swearer Center for Public Service
From 1978-79 to 1987 Brown had ten balanced budgets and the endowment increased from $95.4 million to $356.7 million.Swearer, Howard R.
In a survey in 1987 supported by the Exxon Education Foundation in which 485 educational leaders ranked college presidents, Swearer was considered to be among the most effective presidents in the country.Swearer, Howard R.
In 1987 Tim Donovan ’89 became the first Brown player to win the New England championship twice.Tennis
The name of the department was changed to the Department of Theatre, Speech, and Dance in 1987.Theatre Arts
James O. Barnhill was chairman of the department until 1979, followed by Don B. Wilmeth until 1987.Theatre Arts
In the summer of 1987 Charles Baldwin, who had been involved with Tougaloo since the beginning of the Brown-Tougaloo agreement, was asked to serve as interim president of the College.Tougaloo College
Bob Rothenberg ’65 was named coordinator of track and men’s cross country in May 1983 and director of track and cross country for men and women in 1987.Track
Mike Muska coached women’s cross country from 1987 to 1991 with a five year record of 20-10-1.Track
Samuel Nabrit, the first African American to receive a doctorate from Brown, was honored in 1987.William Rogers Award
In 1987 Bob Hill ’88 became Brown’s first Easterns champion as he won the 150 pound class title.Wrestling