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...Eldridge Cleaver, on trial in California for attempted murder, has had to delay his trip to Harvard, originally scheduled for Monday...
Daniel S. Gilbarg, a first-year student at the Ed School who spoke to Cleaver's Ramparts secretary yesterday, said the Black Panther leader hopes to get to Harvard before the end of October. But a new date for the lecture has not yet been...
Gilbarg, who through a friend initially contacted Cleaver at the Peace and Freedom Party convention this summer, has been working with the Kennedy Institute on arrangements for the visit. In addition to Cleaver's legal tie-up on the West Coast, Gilbarg said, misunderstanding has arisen over the amount of his honorarium...
...Cleaver would have monopolized the course. He was to have been one of 12 speakers, including a psychiatrist, a Mexican-American writer, and Oakland Chief of Police Charles Gain, whom the Panthers scarcely view with academic detachment. For all that, Cleaver's appointment to speak produced an incendiary reaction. Among the first to explode was State Schools Superintendent Max Rafferty, a master of gothic prose and a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate. Said he: "Cleaver is certainly as well qualified to lecture on urban unrest as Attila the Hun would be qualified to lecture on international mass murder...
After the assembly voted to censure university officials for the appointment, the board of regents settled on a compromise. Cleaver and the other guest speakers, said the board, will be limited to one lecture each. In the midst of the controversy, the University of Santa Clara invited the Panther professor to become a guest lecturer at its campus south of San Francisco...