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DIED. CLARK KERR, 92, educational innovator while president of the University of California system in the 1950s and '60s; in El Cerrito, Calif. He pushed for the right of every student to a college education, regardless of ability to pay, and created a multicampus public institution that became a blueprint for state universities across the nation. But his reputation was tarnished in 1964 when he was caught in the cross-fire between student protesters at Berkeley and a Board of Regents that wanted him to take a hard line. He was ousted three years later by Governor Ronald Reagan...
...they worried about the possible impact of the landslide vote in California, even critics of the antitax movement expressed some sympathy for the psychology motivating the drive. "There's a tremendous paranoia sweeping the country," observed Amo DeBernardis, president of Oregon's multicampus, property-tax-supported Portland Community College. "People feel helpless about the way their government is headed, and this is the only way they can fight...
Died. Robert Gordon Sproul, 84, president of the University of California from 1930 to 1958, during which time the multicampus university rose to international prominence; in Berkeley, Calif. Sproul, who graduated from U.C. in 1913, became president of the university after ten years as its comptroller. But he was a canny politician - by 1947 he had managed to get more than $255 million from the state legislature. He offered high salaries and attracted an eminent faculty, while working hard to unify the university's southern and northern factions: at annual football contests between U.C.L.A. and Berkeley, Sproul switched sides...
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