Word: aprill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University has received national publicity and praise for its liberal policies and its recognition of the needs of Black students. What the University has set forth (in a communique dated April 7) is a highly inadequate Afro-American Studies program, one which ignores creative solutions to the problems of Black people. In conclusion, because of all these development we believe the time has come to reassert our demands for a meaningful Afro-American Studies program, and to urge all students, black and white, to push for reconstructing the Corporation to include members of the entire University community...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences deplore the forcible occupation of University Hall on April 9. Responsibility for the events that followed falls, in the first instance, upon those who forced their way into the building, who forcibly ousted the officers of the University at work there, and who insisted upon remaining long after they were requested to leave...
...city's April Fools' Day balloting also produced two winners with familiar names. Barry Goldwater Jr., 30, who may be more conservative than his Senator father, won the G.O.P. primary for a vacant Los Angeles seat in Congress. Edmund G. Brown Jr., 31, son of the former Governor, made good in his first race too, leading the primary field for a place on the city's newly created junior colleges board. Both are heavy favorites in their runoffs...
...that would split the state in two along the length of the 600-mile San Andreas fault is in their opinion inconceivable. Nor, they add, can anyone predict the time, place or magnitude of the quake with absolute certitude. In fact, one of the quake dates predicted by soothsayers, April 4, passed last week without a tremor. But neither scientific reassurances nor disappointments have much impact on the true believers. When radio stations reported that noted Caltech Seismologist Charles Richter was leaving the state in April, disaster rumors swelled anew-until Richter explained that he was only going away...
Stemming from our strong disapproval of the Administration's action of calling police on campus to remove students from University Hall on April 10, 1969, we the undersigned faculty and students of the Visual and Environmental Studies Department hereby suspend formal class meetings from Friday, April 11 through Monday, 14, 1969, in order to dircuss the issues more fully...