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...reaction of University President Clark Kerr was slower. Two regents from Los Angeles, Board Chairman Edward Carter and Oilman Edwin Pauley, telephoned him and told him that the student offenders must be disciplined by the university too. Kerr agreed that discipline was due, but hesitated. Since last December's student uprising, it has become customary at Cal to let civil courts handle students involved in violations of the law. Kerr feared that adding a university punishment would be taken as breaking an understanding with the thousands of students who had crusaded against such "double jeopardy." He foresaw a renewal...
Triple Scolding. Given the widespread public and student repugnance to the supporters of obscenity, Kerr might not have had to be so fastidious. Instead, he passed the buck to two faculty committees that had been set up to handle problems of student conduct in border line areas between scholarly discipline and lawbreaking. But in this case both refused to act. Regent Carter telephoned Kerr again, told him that if he did not punish the offenders, the regents would do so. Kerr thought that left him too little room to maneuver. He and the able new head of the Berkeley campus...
Meyerson and Clark Kerr, president of the University, also demanded that the Regents give them a clear statement of support in their enforcement of student discipline...
...special meeting of the Board of Regents Saturday, the Regents reaffirmed the policy that "chancellors are responsible for enforcing policies on student conduct." At the same meeting, Meyerson and Kerr rescinded their resignations. After the meeting Kerr said that he planned to remain in his job next fall...
Regent Phillip Boyd and U.C.L.A. chancellor Franklin Murphy, who before Saturday was considered as a leading candidate to replace Kerr, yesterday reaffirmed their support of Meyerson...