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H. Edwin Young, University of Wisconsin chancellor

By T. Rees Shapiro

 |  Washington Post  

  January 13, 2012

H. Edwin Young, who led the University of Wisconsin at Madison through some of the most dramatic campus violence of the Vietnam War era, died Jan. 2 at an assisted living facility in Madison. He was 94. When Mr. Young became chancellor in September 1968, he inherited a school in the throes of a cultural rebellion. At a time of daily peace rallies at colleges across the country, the University of Wisconsin drew national headlines for its turbulence.

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