Word: berkeleys
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While campaigning for the governorship of California, Ronald Reagan promised to do something about radical student activities at the University of California's Berkeley campus. Liberal fears of an attack on academic freedom grew after Reagan was elected, and The New Republic printed a pithy addendum to two articles on university crackdowns in Argentina and Rhodesia that asked: "Could it happen here...
...marginal restrictions on student activities seem to be on the way. The governor-elect has asked John McCone, a former CIA head who reported on the Watts riots for the Johnson administration, to choose 15 prominent men willing to serve on a committee to investigate controversial student problems at Berkeley. The University's Board of Regents, Reagan proposes, would then pick five from the group who would write a report which the Regents could, in the end, deal with as they...
...have in the past been very careful to leave matters of student conduct up to the university administrators. When asked last year by Governor Brown to investigate charges of treasonable demonstrations, sex, and drug sprees on campus, the Regents soon returned a short report leaving the whole matter to Berkeley Chancellor Roger Heyns...
Reagon occasionally expresses a curious sympathy for student radicals. "I worry about the students who get lost in a big University like Berkeley," Reagan said this summer. "I went to a small school myself. Everyone there had to get involved. I can imagine the appeal some of these university student groups must have. For the first time someone is reaching out and saying: "We want...
...liable to be unsympathetic with a Free Speech Movement revival, knowing what political trouble the original cost them. By the same token, the anti-Goldwater, pro-civil rights sentiment that sparked such wide student support for the dissenters in 1964 will be absent from any FSM revivals. The Berkeley faculty and majority of the student body are likely to support slightly greater restrictions on campus political activity now than they would two years ago. Middle-man Heyns realizes this and appears to be maneuvering towards a solution which will satisfy both the students and the new administration in Sacramento...