Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foresight in dealing with the Negro slums of Watts in Los Angeles and McAllister-Hunter's Point in San Francisco. His once firm support of open housing laws has faded to a hoarse whisper in the face of massive voter antagonism. In moments of crisis, particularly during the Berkeley demonstrations two years ago, he has vacillated and yielded to irrational pressures...
...governor today has an untarnished record on civil rights and liberties. It is unfair to demand that Brown, the governor of one of the most politically divided states in the country, be an exception. Despite his past mistakes in dealing with Berkeley, Brown has courageously supported the university administration's concessions to student activists even while polls show that thosuands of Californians -- disturbed by incidents at Berkeley -- intend to vote against the governor precisely on that issue...
Brown's Republican opponent, Ronald Reagan, has clearly benefitted from the anti-Berkeley vote and all the other fear issues--race riots, open-housing, and welfare abuses. A few of Reagan's solutions to these problems are reasonable, most are not, but it is doubtful he could put them in effect even if elected. Reagan would face a heavily Democratic legislature and a state administration full of men dreaming about their elevation to the governorship in 1970. There would be few with the incentive to help Reagan produce any legislation -- constructive or otherwise -- in the next four years...
Courtesy of Dialogue. Considering the fact that Berkeley and U.C.L.A. are part of the same university, why did the Free Speech riots not spread south to Westwood? One reason, answers Murphy, is that Berkeley has traditionally had a bigger share of student activists than U.C.L.A., and thus far more troublemaking "nonstudent hangers-on in the periphery." But Murphy is critical of the way in which Cal's administrators mishandled the disorders. "You can't substitute memos and bulletins for the courtesy of a dialogue and an explanation," he says. To preserve U.C.L.A.'s record of relative stability...
...Like Berkeley, U.C.L.A. is simply one of nine theoretically equal campuses of California's vast state university system. Although he admires and respects Cal President Clark Kerr, at meetings of the regents has made it clear that Kerr "doesn't speak for me," and has successfully fought for more U.C.L.A. autonomy in such matters as budget making and seeking federal funds on its own. Proud of his school's progress so far, Murphy envisions U.C.L.A. becoming a model modern counterpart of the great medieval universities, blending quality and quantity, serving as an intellectual laboratory for an increasingly...