Causes of Merger; Ambitions of Fred Harvey Harrington administration; WSU chancellors and TAUWF; Political ambitions of Governor Patrick Lucey; Donald Percy's career at UW; Young and Smith's efforts to preserve campus autonomy and WARF funding for Madison campus; Their efforts to stop proliferation of Ph.D. and research programs outside Madison and Milwaukee; John Weaver's presidency; His relationship with regents; His relationship with Legislature under governors Lucey, Lee Dreyfus and Anthony Earl; Important legislators; Problems of personnel policy and collective bargaining in merged system.