Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still another wave of disturbances, the new president, Robert R. Smith, former dean at S.F. State, had to close the college down completely. The new demonstrations by B.S.U. members and the local chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society were stirred up by the suspension of George Murray, 22, a part-time teacher and graduate student who is also minister of education for the Black Panthers. All 800 blacks at S.F. State are counted as members by the B.S.U., whether the students concerned agree or not. And the disruptive B.S.U. tactics, designed to force the administration to build...
Last month, Murray urged students at Fresno State College to ''kill all the slave masters," among whom he later counted President Johnson, Chief Justice Warren and Governor Reagan. A few days afterward he told students at S.F. State to bring guns on the campus for "self-defense...
After that, State College Chancellor Glenn S. Dumke ordered President Smith to suspend Murray. Earlier, Smith had refused a similar request from the trustees, but now he had no choice. Black militants responded by calling a student strike that quickly spawned hit-and-run raids on campus buildings. Labs were ransacked and equipment ruined. Minor fires were set and a stink bomb was thrown into a library reading room...
...Francisco tactical police squad, which had been called in to clear the campus during earlier disorders, was summoned again. A faculty meeting, convened to decide whether or not the faculty should join the strike, voted instead to demand the resignation of Chancellor Dumke for having ordered Murray's suspension. Many faculty members felt that Murray's provocations were intolerable and that he purposely sought suspension in order to rally support for earlier B.S.U. demands. But they resented Dumke's intervention in college affairs even more. The faculty also voted for a "suspension of instruction," and within...
...Rome, nurturing his aversion to politics, as well as rewriting and reissuing his novels. To ex-Communists and younger, unencumbered New Leftists, he is a veteran saint of the revolution for social justice and individual dignity. Yet, as keeper of the flame, Silone is an exceedingly human presence: Columnist Murray Kempton once described him as looking and talking like a tobacconist...