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...tension rose in California last night over Eldridge Cleaver's appointment as lecturer on racism, West Coast sources reported that President Pusey had advised the U.C. Regents in their decision to abort the Cleaver course...
...announcing the Regents' decision to reject Cleaver's appointment, U.C. President Charles J. Hitch said last week that the Regents based their action on "a long-standing Harvard rule that anyone who lectures more than twice must receive official approval...
Meanwhile, a showdown appears imminent at Berkeley as classes begin today. At a press conference yesterday afternoon, the organizers of Cleaver's course announced that the course will hold its first meeting today, despite the Regents' decision. U.C. faculty members met late last night in an effort to find a solution to the faculty-administration power struggle that has developed out of the Cleaver controversy...
...Black Panther reportedly understood that he would receive $1000 for his lecture. But the Kennedy Institute, which pays for the guest lectures in Soc Sci 5--the course, with Soc Rel 148, that Cleaver was invited to address--set a limit of $200 per lecture at the beginning of the year...
...Cleaver, still reported eager to come, has reduced his fee to $750, and the Kennedy Institute anticipates little trouble raising the extra money...