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...Martin Meyerson, Chancellor of the University of California's Berkeley Campus, indicated in a telephone interview yesterday that unless the Berkeley faculty and the Board of Regents adopt "a series of suggestions concerning administrative policy" he will once again resign...
According to reliable sources, some of Meyerson's suggestions will deal with student discipline. In the "four-letter word" case, the Berkeley faculty reportedly could not decide which of its two committees had jurisdiction. One group is supposed to handle "all student cases involving sex and beer," while the other deals with discipline in campus political disturbances...
...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 At the same meeting, Meyerson and Kerr rescinded their resignations.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...
...Berkeley Student Council this morning passed two resolutions asking that Kerr and Meyerson withdraw their resignations. Both men indicated that they had resigned in a parliamentary move. Kerr said "I have resigned to stop the continuing and destructive degradation of freedom into license and to avoid a new confrontation at Berkeley which could only damage the campus even more...