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...LOOK Board of Regents first flexed its conservative muscles last November, during the Cleaver affair. In the wake of the '66 Berkeley riots, the Regents had set up special student-faculty committees to design and select new courses. Last fall, the Berkeley committee came up with a number of new courses--including one on U.S. racism. The lecturer was to be Eldridge Cleaver, who was then a U.S. resident and available for such duties...
...Regents' meagre enthusiasm for the course-creating committees vanished as soon as they heard about Cleaver. In a swift purge, the Regents banned the Cleaver course, crippled the student-faculty committees, and touched off immediate student protests. A series of abortive moves by both sides followed. But the issue of student and faculty power to create their own courses was never resolved. The Regents re-opened negotiations to decide just how much autonomy the individual campuses should have in designing curricula, but no clear statement emerged...
...been parked. In the first grave, they found a head wrapped in a plastic bag and a torso, with apparent stab wounds, swathed in cloth. Further searching turned up parts of the three other bodies. It appeared that the girls had been killed before dismemberment. An ax or cleaver had been used for the grotesque operations. All, apparently, were nude at death, and there were teeth marks on the bodies. An autopsy showed that one of the two teenagers' bodies had been buried for eight or nine months, the other as long as a year. One of the Providence...
...WHICH gives a partial and very inaccurate picture of Eldridge Cleaver. His knees may be too tender for the pigs to handle him, but there is not one solitary thing wrong with his intellect. Or his powers of observation. Quotations won't get it for showing Eldridge's Thought. To deal with his intellect and ideas, you have to bring your own, sit yourself down, and lock horns...
There is a degree of surprise and disappointment in this book. Those who read Soul On Ice know that Eldridge Cleaver can write. From the standpoint of style and evocation, however, many of these pieces are clearly not up to his ability, though sufficient to qualify as well-written. A few of the pieces were tossed onto paper (or tape) just in time to meet a deadline; still others simply did not call forth his full abilities. When he wrote of Huey and the Panthers, though, it was most literally something else. Excitement, lucidity, precision of phrase, name it. Then...