Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final defense witness was Fred Black Jr., a partner in Baker's ill-starred vending-machine venture and himself under indictment for income tax evasion. Black told of sitting in a car with Kerr in Poteau, Okla., in late 1962: "Senator Kerr was concerned because he said he had advanced Mr. Baker $50,000 out of what he called 'cam- paign contributions,' and he would have to replenish it out of his own pocket if he couldn't pay." Baker had testified earlier that Kerr canceled the debt just before he died...
...firing of Clark Kerr as president of the University of California was sudden and unexpected. But last week's reaction from Cal's faculty and students was entirely predictable: it was visceral and angry...
...university president. Assembled as the Academic Senate, 1,000 faculty members approved a resolution terming the action "reckless and precipitate" and amounting to "destructive political intervention" that "threatens the survival of the university as an institution of distinction." Professors applauded after Berkeley Chancellor Roger Heyns declared that "Clark Kerr was one of the reasons I came to this university," and insisted that his firing had "the appearance of a political reprisal," which was "deplorable...
...Senseless Action." The Berkeley student government fired off letters to 14 regents who had voted to dismiss Kerr, saying that their action had been "senseless and illogical." The firing was later denounced at a rally of 7,000 students at U.C.L.A., which was addressed by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, who later said he felt "a sense of deep sadness" over Kerr's dismissal. Similar protest rallies attracted 6,000 students at Berkeley, 5,000 at the Santa Barbara campus, 3,500 at Riverside. The university's nine chancellors met in Los Angeles, pledged to continue Kerr...
Outside California, top officers of the American Association of University Professors, which had honored Kerr in 1964 as a defender of academic freedom, said his dismissal "has profoundly shocked the academic community." Dr. Samuel Gould, president of New York State's university system, called Kerr "an outstanding educator" and described the firing as "unfortunate...