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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharishi_University_of_Management
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Transcendental Meditation teachers conceived the university and Nat Goldhaber established it in 1971. Maharishi International University (MIU) was inaugurated by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Robert Keith Wallace became its first president in 1973. Its first location was an apartment complex in Goleta,[9] a small community near Santa Barbara, California, where it began with one hundred students and thirty-five faculty members.[4]
In June 1974, the university purchased the campus of the former Parsons College in Fairfield, Iowa.[4] Parsons, founded in 1875, had gone bankrupt after losing its accreditation.
The only requirement for admission to MIU at that time was a high school diploma, and transfer students were accepted without regard to their academic standing. All students were required to complete the 24 courses in the freshman course of study, some of which consisted of taped lectures by "resident" faculty who did not set foot on campus during their courses.[9]
As of 1976, all faculty and administrators were paid the same base salary of $275 per month, with additional stipends on a sliding scale for those with spouses and children, and all lived in university dormitories for free.[10]
After moving to the Fairfield campus, MIU was listed as a "candidate for accreditation" in 1975[10] and in 1980 received accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission and became a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCACS).[3]
Bevan Morris was appointed president and chairman of the board of trustees in 1979. The first of the Golden Domes was completed that same year to provide a building for the group practice of the TM-Sidhi program.
In July 1983, it was reported that many students at Maharishi International University were expelled for distributing literature for meditation seminars by Robin Carlsen, a dissident who criticized the movement leadership, and others were suspended and had their "super-radiance cards", needed for admission to the meditation domes, revoked.[11] In 1983, Morris organized a special three-week "Taste of Utopia" gathering in December 1983 and January 1984 which attracted more than 7,000 practitioners of the TM-Sidhi program. He later reported that reduced world tensions and a higher Dow Jones stock index occurred during, and as a result of, this event.[12]
In 1995, Maharishi International University changed its name to Maharishi University of Management (MUM).[4]
In order to rebuild the campus according to Maharishi Sthapatya Veda design principles, many of the original Parsons College buildings were demolished, including four that were listed on the National Historic Register. Starting in 2000 and continuing through 2005, the university demolished Carnegie Hall, Parsons Hall, Barhydt Chapel, Blum Stadium, Laser Tower, the dining hall, and 38 "pods".[13] Local preservationists protested the demolition in 2000 of Parsons Hall, built in 1915,[14] and of Barhydt Chapel, designed in 1911 by Henry K. Holsman. An effort was made to move the chapel to a new location. University officials said that MUM would donate it to a community group if they could raise the $1 million needed to move what the Fairfield Ledger described as an "ailing building".[15][16]
The Maharishi University of Management stabbing occurred in 2001 when Shuvender Sem, a student at MUM, attacked two other students in separate incidents.[17] He stabbed the first student with a pen and hours later fatally stabbed Levi Butler with a knife. Sem was found not guilty due to insanity and the university settled a lawsuit that charged it with negligence.[17] According to journalist Anthony Barnett, the attacks led critics to question the movement's claims that advanced meditation techniques could end violence.[18] Maharishi said of the incident that "this is an aspect of the violence we see throughout society", including the violence that the U.S. perpetrates in other countries.[18]
Beginning in 2005, film director David Lynch began hosting an annual "David Lynch Weekend for World Peace and Meditation" at MUM.[19] The 2008 event included musical performances by Donovan, Moby and Chrysta Bell.[20] The 4th annual event, November 12–16, 2009 featured Donovan, MUM professor John Hagelin, and the American debut of James McCartney who performed on November 14, 2009 at the Fairfield Arts & Convention Center in Fairfield, Iowa.[19][21] The weekend conference was intended to appeal to those "interested in creativity, film, art, sustainable living, organic agriculture, brain development, consciousness, meditation, natural medicine, renewable living, peace".[19][22]