Word: kerrs
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Meanwhile in Berkeley, President Clark Kerr told a meeting of 13,000 students that the University would drop the charges against four leaders of the Free Speech Movement which triggered renewed demonstrations last week...
...Kerr said he would leave the 800 students arrested in last Thursday's sit-in to the courts because civil charges are "far more serious than those made previously by the University." He added that there would be no change in a recent ruling by the California Regents making illegal political activity off campus subject to University discipline...
When Mario Savio, a leader of the F.S.M., tried to speak in answer to Kerr, he was dragged from the podium by University police, amid loud booing from the crowd, Later he told an F.S.M. rally that Kerr's proposals were "totally unacceptable...
Supporting the students, the Berkeley chapter of the American Association of University Professors demanded that University Chancellor Edward Strong be discharged. Clark Kerr, president of the Berkeley campus, was also criticized for his conduct during the demonstrations...
...identical editorials, the student newspapers of the Berkeley, Los Angles and Davis Campuses of the University said that Kerr had talked enough to the press and the community, and that he should consult instead with students who are "the last straw afloat for a sinking campus...