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...Cleaver--currently on trial in California for attempted murder--will lecture two new courses, Social Sciences 5 and Social Relations 148. The date is still tentative as Cleaver's trial may keep him on the West Coast...
About 40 or 50 black students were among the more than 200 accepted to Soc Sci 5, "The Afro-American Experience." Frank B. Freidel Jr., professor of History, said yesterday that all the upperclassmen and some of the freshmen who applied were admitted. Cleaver's talk will be one of from ten to twelve required talks by outside lecturers during the year...
...STILL more than a week until classes begin at the University of California. But the potential for the most violent student-administration conflict since the 1965 Free Speech Movement has already developed in a pre-term battle between Regents and Faculty over Eldridge Cleaver's appointment as lecturer on racism...
Black militant Cleaver's qualifications as a University lecturer were genuinely debatable. As Minister of Information of the California-based Black Panthers, Presidential candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party, and author of the widely-acclaimed Soul On Ice, Cleaver undoubtedly had something to contribute to a course on Racism In America. But Cleaver is not a man designed to appeal to classic American educational tastes. His criminal record dates to 1954, and includes charges of narcotics violations, assault, and rape. When his appointment was announced last Wednesday, Cleaver was beginning a trial in Oakland on three counts of attempted...
...while objections to Cleaver may be easy to understand, the tactics that the University's Board of Regents have used to remove him have raised widespread fear about the future of faculty and student autonomy in the UC system. In ousting Cleaver, the Regents may have mortally wounded one of the University's most promising innovations--the Board of Educational Development...