Pre-Merger systems of higher education in Wisconsin; Failure of CCHE; Powerful personalities of Fred Harvey Harrington and Eugene McPhee; Their relationship with legislators; Warren Knowles, William Kellett, David Adamany and Lee Dreyfus in relation to Lucey's platform for higher education; 1970 gubernatorial campaign; Faculty support for Merger as campaign issue; Appointment of John Weaver; Politics of Merger battle, 1971; Austerity budgets; Elimination of campuses; Parochialism and Board of Regents; Effectiveness of System; Impressions of Edwin Young and Robert O'Neil; Problems of System presidency and search for O'Neil's successor; Problem of faculty exodus.