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...Soul on Ice, Cleaver...
General Curtis E. LeMay and the Peace and Freedom Party's Eldridge Cleaver can probably boast (if boast is the word) even more precarious futures. The general has lost his $50,000-a-year job as board chairman of a California electronics firm. Cleaver, who won nearly 200,000 votes, is headed for a California courtroom to stand trial for assault with intent to commit murder and assault with a deadly weapon-the result of a shoot-out with Oakland police officers last April. In the meantime, he is lecturing at Berkeley...
...rebels' cause was a ruling by the California regents that Black Panther Leader Eldridge Cleaver could not deliver ten lectures for a credit course on racism. This decision clearly violated powers over curriculum that had been held by the faculty since the 1920s. To the students, the regents also appeared to be trying to restrain the expression of Black Power sentiment. The course, Social Analysis 139X, was de-signed to let Cleaver have his say; but his arguments were to be dissected in section meetings by full-time professors. The regents decided that the course could not be given...
Full Credit. The faculty protested the decision and recommended that full credit be given for the course. Chancellor Roger Heyns backed up the professors and advised that Cleaver could give the ten lectures while talks with the regents on the credit question continued. To militant students, the regents' curtailment of the Cleaver course amounted to a politically motivated interference with academic freedom. Uni-versity administrators feared a worse disruption than in 1964. Several thousand aroused students attended a meeting to organize a protest movement. Opposed to any strong central authority, even in their own cause, they split into small...
...Cleaver gathers together the problems of individuals in our society, the conflicts of black and white, and the struggles of nationalism and the status quo. Most important, however, he shows their dependence on each other and shows that we all--black and white, young and old--are tied together in a period of great and serious change...