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Other speakers have had trouble lately being heard in academe. Former Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver, now, improbably, a conservative born-again Christian, was drowned out by several hundred screaming protesters when he tried to speak at the University of Wisconsin. Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani began a talk at Kansas State University. A roar of protest erupted from the back of the auditorium. The hall had to be cleared for 80 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Holding the Speaker Hostage | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

...campaign, which encourages campus groups to uphold the rights of speakers by letting them carry out their remarks, was spurred by Kirkpatrick's withdrawl as commencement speaker at Smith College due to widespread student and faculty opposition. Former Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver and Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Z. Yamani have also recently cancelled addresses citing campus protests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Protest of Protests | 4/6/1983 | See Source »

They did it by first building their business into three popular Phoenix-area restaurants called Garcia's and then selling out to Thomas Fleck, a founder of the California-based Cork 'N Cleaver chain, for $3 million in cash and notes in 1979. Fleck went public with Garcia's stock last year and has opened 14 new dining spots from San Diego to Des Moines since he bought the rights to the name. Garcia, 56, retired as chairman a year ago, but his wife, 53, still visits some kitchens and samples sauces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Enchilada Millionaires | 11/29/1982 | See Source »

...Afro-Americans have had, God knows, more than out fair share of political hustlers--from Marcus Garvey to Eldredge Cleaver--but they don't usually turn up as students at top-level law schools like Harvard Law. Then again, maybe they should be at places like Harvard Law, for, God knows, there have been enough white political hustlers--of every ethnic description, from Irish to WASP--around the place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hustling | 11/10/1982 | See Source »

...grades and go right into the senior class at Crestridge High, where the calendar reads "Autumn 1982" but all available evidence indicates a stopover in the late 1950s. Crestridge is the sort of happy-go-lucky institution where Shelley Fabares ought to be the homecoming queen and Beaver Cleaver the hall monitor. It serves, however, as the unlikely temple of learning for Matthew Star, who is, literally, a space case. Matt (Peter Barton) is, as the opening narration informs, "a typical American teen-ager." It's just that he also happens to hail from Quadris, a distant planet racked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The Blackboard Jumble | 10/18/1982 | See Source »

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