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...Cleaver, a jail-educated militant of abrasive eloquence, the court order for his imprisonment comes at an embarrassing moment. He is the presidential candidate for the antiwar Peace and Freedom Party. He is also scheduled to appear as a guest lecturer at the University of California's Berkeley campus, an appointment that stirred angry protests from the state's political establishment. For the Panthers, with two of their leaders on ice, it was a time of barely throttled fury...
Meeting late last night, the Faculty Senate at U.C. Berkeley passed six resolutions backing Eldridge Cleaver's appointment as lecturer in an experimental course on racism...
...vote, the faculty approved the key proposal--Resolution 5--urging the organizers of the Cleaver course "to carry on the process of instruction, on campus...or off-campus...
...five other resolutions all blasted the Regents for their decision last month to reject Cleaver's appointment and to destroy the Board of Educational Development (BED)--the faculty committee that had created the Cleaver course. By their "hasty and ill considered action," the resolutions said, the Regent had "abolished academic freedom" at Berkeley...
After the meeting, several professors made it clear that the faculty action "was based on principle, not personality." Most faculty members said they were objecting to the incursion on the BED's rights, and not on Cleaver's specific merits as lecturer...