Albert Ruddock News Today

In our last installment, Santa Barbara’s 17-acre Child Estate had been donated by Lillian Child to the Santa Barbara Foundation, to be used for the public

Print Having traveled the difficult road of coming to terms with racism in its own past, Caltech on Friday said it would remove the names of Robert A. Millikan and five other important figures in its history from campus. The reason is their association with the Human Betterment Foundation, a major promoter of the discredited science of eugenics and of programs to forcibly sterilize those whom eugenicists labeled “feeble-minded” or “unfit.” The move amounts to a major reckoning with the...