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5 unusual facts about Kresge College


Kresge College

Annual events include the Fall Film Festival and Halloween showings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show with a live cast.

The first provost of Kresge, Bob Edgar, had been strongly influenced by his experience in T-groups run by NTL Institute.

The architecture of Kresge College is designed to resemble a residential area in Tuscany, and includes a piazzetta next to the mail room and college office.

Distinguished early faculty members included Gregory Bateson, former husband of Margaret Mead and author of Steps to an Ecology of Mind; Phil Slater, author of The Pursuit of Loneliness; John Grinder, co-founder of Neuro-linguistic programming and co-author of The Structure of Magic; and William Everson, one of the Beat poets.

Richard Bandler

Bateson taught at UCSC, Kresge College as did Grinder, and had moved to a community on Alba Road near the Santa Cruz mountains community of Ben Lomond.



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