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...Challenge, Servan-Schreiber (4) 4. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Wolfe (3) 5. Iberia, Michener (5) 6. The Case Against Congress, Pearson and Anderson 7. Between Parent and Child, Ginott (6) 8. The Doctor's Quick Weight Loss Diet, Stillman and Baker (8) 9. Soul on Ice, Cleaver (7) 10. The Naked Ape, Morris...
...traditional standards, academe would not seem to be Eldridge Cleaver's bag. Yet he does have something to teach. Cleaver, who has spent nearly twelve years in California prisons for such crimes as assault with intent to kill, is the author of Soul on Ice, a brilliant polemic on the Negro experience in America. He is also the abrasively articulate "Minister of Information" for the Black Panther movement. Thus Cleaver seemed to be an imaginative choice to appear as an unpaid guest lecturer in Social Analysis 139X, an experimental course in race relations which is being conducted this semester...
While Reagan and Unruh were blasting Cleaver, the state legislature was taking concrete action. State Senator John Schmitz of Orange County, an outspoken Birchite, introduced a resolution to censure the University for its "irresponsibility." The motion passed the Senate by an overwhelming 32-3 vote. In the legislature, debate began on a bill to cut off all funds for the University until Cleaver was fired...
Many UC faculty members who had originally opposed Cleaver's appointment began to unite against this obvious threat to their independence. The BED issued a statement asking the public to consider the dangers in the legislature's action, and BED members, in private interviews, defended the course...
...additional 12 per cent indicated that they wouldn't vote for president, even if given the chance. Nine per cent favored Peace and Freedom candidate Eldridge Cleaver, the Black Panther minister of defense. WHRB Poll of the Class of '72 Candidate Per Cent Nixon 14 Humphrey 24 Wallace 2 Cleaver 9 Halstead 1 Write-ins McCarthy 27 Rockefeller 3 Wouldn't Vote...