Word: cleavers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the University announced the course last Wednesday, it neglected to explain the course's "balance," or that Cleaver was not being paid. A revised press release, issued on Thursday, tried to explain the subtleties of Cleaver's appointment, but by then explanations were too late. The public reaction had begun; it was immediate and predictable...
...surprise, Governor Ronald Reagan announced that Cleaver had to go. "It's true, what they've been saying about me all these years," Reagan told chortling reporters on Thursday, "I'm an anti-intellectual. I'm going to take apart the curriculum of this University by at least one course...
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...