Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time when student unrest on the University of California's Berkeley campus seemed to be simmering down, a handful of cause-hunting students and some off-campus beatniks suddenly began shouting obscene words into a public-address system at Sproul Hall and displaying them on signs. The reaction of Berkeley police against what quickly got dubbed the "filthy speech movement" was swift: nine demonstrators were arrested (six turned out not to be registered students...
...discipline and lawbreaking. But in this case both refused to act. Regent Carter telephoned Kerr again, told him that if he did not punish the offenders, the regents would do so. Kerr thought that left him too little room to maneuver. He and the able new head of the Berkeley campus, Acting Chancellor Martin Meyerson, debated a bit, then told Carter that they both intended to resign...
...American college student; this year it is bringing a radical testing of law and the university, all with candid disregard for consequences. To students across the country - or at least to that bright, neurotic tenth of them who make themselves visible - the effect of six months of tumult at Berkeley has been to show, as Yale Student Bruce Payne expresses it, that "students have become somebody in being able to act together...
Martin Meyerson, Chancellor of the University of California's Berkeley Campus, indicated in a telephone interview yesterday that unless the Berkeley faculty and the Board of Regents adopt "a series of suggestions concerning administrative policy" he will once again resign...
According to reliable sources, some of Meyerson's suggestions will deal with student discipline. In the "four-letter word" case, the Berkeley faculty reportedly could not decide which of its two committees had jurisdiction. One group is supposed to handle "all student cases involving sex and beer," while the other deals with discipline in campus political disturbances...