Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...firm. Cleaver, who won nearly 200,000 votes, is headed for a California courtroom to stand trial for assault with intent to commit murder and assault with a deadly weapon-the result of a shoot-out with Oakland police officers last April. In the meantime, he is lecturing at Berkeley...
This fall, student dissidents were expected to create more chaos on more campuses than ever. But they have failed to disrupt the University of California at Berkeley, where the wave of rebellion began four years ago. Last week a call for a campus-wide strike was heeded by less than 20% of Berkeley's 28,000 students, even though the activists had an issue far more provocative than anything enjoyed by Mario Savio and his 1964 Free Speech Movement...
...Berkeley's relative calm, despite a potentially explosive issue, was a tribute to the skill of Chancellor Heyns in pacifying key groups on campus. Since taking office in 1965, Heyns has been able to isolate the more militant groups by dealing firmly with extremist tactics, while remaining open to orderly protest. He has been helped by the fact that Students for a Democratic Society is surprisingly weak at Berkeley, while other militants refuse to coalesce behind any single leader...
Convinced that he has done what he set out to do in Berkeley, Sullivan last month announced that he will leave in January to accept a new challenge. He will become state education commissioner for Massachusetts, where a new law requiring racial balance in the schools is meeting some resistance. Most of the opposition is in Boston, which may soon face Sullivan's prodding question-if two-way bussing works in Berkeley, why not there as well...
...university and then cut him off," protests Raymond E. Peck, a vice president of the University of Missouri. With commitments already made, the schools claim that they will have to dip into their own operating funds or endowments to keep many of the NSF projects going. The Berkeley mathematics department termed the NSF reductions "outrageous and inequitable," and issued a statement warning the university that the cutbacks would cripple its research and cause staff members to leave...