From the OC Register:
In the late 1960s, just after UC Irvine was founded, a motley group of professors and students set up an experimental community called the Farm. There, economists, anthropologists and others lived with students and indigenous people from Guatemala in an environment designed to explore the human experience through immersive education… Bill Maurer is dean of the School of Social Sciences at UC Irvine.

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