Word: meyerson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Martin Meyerson, acting chancellor of the University of California's Berkeley Campus, said yesterday that his office is studying the regulations of 16 universities--including Harvard--in an effort to adopt a "simple set of rules" for Berkeley. The results of the study will be made public later this week...
...Meyerson, former professor of City Planning at Harvard, said in a telephone interview that he hoped to reduce drastically the "volumes of rules" at Berkeley. "All of them would fill my briefcase, whereas at Harvard, the rules are contained in one wallet-sized pamphlet," he said...
...absolutes in my world is that the rights of democracy have to be extended not only to those with whom we agree but to those with whom we disagree." As for civil disobedience, which students used last month in their sit-in at the university's administration building, Meyerson thinks it "warranted as a last resort in our democracy-it was warranted in Boston at the famous tea party...
Exam Time. First-semester final exams are about to begin at Cal, and for now most students are willing to skip demonstrations and let Meyerson work out his own way of running the university. But the conflict is not settled. Student Leader Mario Savio questions "whether the regents are the proper people to be running the university," and his Free Speech Movement wants to "establish the availability of a revolutionary experience in education." Concessions so far, he says, do not permit "free speech with consequences, free speech which may lead to sit-ins and picket lines and other civil rights...
...loudspeaker can be used only until 1 p.m., because its use would interfere with classes after that time," he says. "One proposed stratagem would call for a loudspeaker to be employed after 1 o'clock with perhaps 100 persons lined up to say hello or make talks." Troubleshooter Meyerson's prospect is that he will have plenty of trouble to shoot...