Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cleaver, a jail-educated militant of abrasive eloquence, the court order for his imprisonment comes at an embarrassing moment. He is the presidential candidate for the antiwar Peace and Freedom Party. He is also scheduled to appear as a guest lecturer at the University of California's Berkeley campus, an appointment that stirred angry protests from the state's political establishment. For the Panthers, with two of their leaders on ice, it was a time of barely throttled fury...
Meanwhile, a showdown appears imminent at Berkeley as classes begin today. At a press conference yesterday afternoon, the organizers of Cleaver's course announced that the course will hold its first meeting today, despite the Regents' decision. U.C. faculty members met late last night in an effort to find a solution to the faculty-administration power struggle that has developed out of the Cleaver controversy...
...that meeting, the Regents also decided to make changes in the BED's power. Created in the wake of the 1965 Free Speech Movement riots at Berkeley, the BED has been granted power to create experimental courses and invite lecturers without submitting its decisions to the Regents' approval...
...also the abrasively articulate "Minister of Information" for the Black Panther movement. Thus Cleaver seemed to be an imaginative choice to appear as an unpaid guest lecturer in Social Analysis 139X, an experimental course in race relations which is being conducted this semester at the University of California at Berkeley...
Governor Ronald Reagan, an ex-officio member of the University of California board of regents who has had his quarrels with Berkeley in the past, compared the appointment to "asking that famous Bluebeard of Paris, the wife murderer, to be a marriage counselor...