Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Berkeley Yell...
...Until the university's fiscal future is clearly resolved, it seems unlikely that the regents will make much headway in finding a successor to former President Clark Kerr. Most observers expect someone outside the state to be chosen, even though plausible candidates within the university are at hand. Berkeley Chancellor Roger Heyns, who impresses all factions on the campus with both his fairness and firmness, has been stumping the state to argue against tuition and budget cuts, seems incompatible with a Reagan administration. U.C.L.A. Chancellor Franklin Murphy, a Reagan political defender but an opponent of the Governor...
Kerr accumulated his first set of barnacles with his handling of the 1964 Berkeley riots, which alienated students and faculty as well as the regents. The board was further annoyed when Kerr in 1965 publicly resigned without first consulting the regents; they persuaded him to reconsider, but many resented the power squeeze. Still another mistake was Kerr's swift reaction to Reagan's initial budget and tuition proposals, when he ordered a temporary hold on student admissions-again without consulting the regents...
...Finley the essence and strength of Harvard is the House system, the College's defense against the pressure and particularization of the University. "Berkeley shows how good Harvard is. Those fellows out there have no connection with anything." A bit of brick-and-ivy security, "Eliot House is the village within a metropolis...
...with an eye toward the possible formation of a union, perhaps affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers. But when the steering committee met Dec. 18, some of the drawbacks of unionism had already become clear. The first was what one member of the group called "the spectre of Berkeley," where only a few days before a militant union of teaching fellows had played a major role in leading the much-criticized student demonstrators. The Harvard group knew there was no comparable discontent in Cambridge, and they feared that setting up a union with the power to call a strike...