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Pennsylvania-born President Kerr, 47, spent his undergraduate years at Swarthmore, took his Ph.D. in economics at Berkeley, brought his Quaker's instincts for peacemaking to a series of stints as mediator in West Coast labor-management wars. His most notable effort: a long, painful arbitration during 1946-47 between longshoremen and shipowners. Says the dockers' boss, hard-mouthed Harry Bridges: "The assignment was not an easy one. He performed it with fairness and courage...
...four years after Kerr began teaching industrial relations at Berkeley, the University of California regents outraged the faculty by requiring loyalty oaths. Kerr signed, as most members of the embittered faculty did eventually, but as head of the faculty privilege and tenure committee, he fought regents' attempts to fire nonsigners (by 1951, 26 had been fired, 37 had resigned). When a faculty committee was asked to nominate a chancellor for Berkeley, Kerr's fight was remembered. In his inaugural address, he made pointed distinction between "the honest heretic and the conspirator...
...Scholar Kerr continued to teach and write learned articles during his term as chancellor, optimistically plans to do the same as president. One activity he has abandoned for the moment: sandlot athletics with his children (Clark, 15, Alexander, 12, Caroline, 6) and neighbor kids, halted when he broke a tibia recently in a soccer game. He is up at 6 a.m. on working days, commutes from one campus to another by plane, sometimes takes a grocery carton full of documents home at night...
...towering structure on a huge and varied foundation, and to make it habitable for scholarship. While coping with faculty committees, regents' mandates and a legislature as lobby-larded as any in the nation (one lobby by no means friendly to the university: that of the state teachers colleges), Kerr must spy out the special problems of bigness. One of them: the necessity for another 5,000 teachers...
...them, Kerr must raid the source of supply-the faculties at Harvard, Yale, Chicago, Michigan, et al., with promises of blue skies, expansion-pushed advancement and high salaries ($12,900 top). A less obvious necessity: by choice, of site, of faculty minds and of educational specialty, each uncreated campus must be given a strong, distinctive character of its own. In the meantime, new-hatched President Kerr has another problem: "It's hard enough to be installed on one campus. I have to be installed on seven...