ABSTRACT
There began a process of acculturation; the natives were different. Donald Hudson had created an archetypal department of the time a course for each systematic field and each major world region, supported by introductory human and economic geography as required courses for the education and business schools, and physical geography to enable arts majors to satisfy physical science credits. At the heart of the debate was Bill Garrison, recently returned from the University of Pennsylvania, where he had become involved with Walter Isard's call for a new field of Regional Science. Most were residual Robert Platt student's Plattaches and they were quick to signal their disapproval of this brash young faculty member younger by several years than most of them and to engineer contention between the Sauerian philosophies of another arrival to the faculty, Marvin Mikesell, and what Bob Platt disparagingly called Brian Berry's 'lab coat technicians'.
