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...Regents soon moved to get rid of that irritating limitation. A few weeks after the Marcuse debate, Edwin Pauley, an oil tycoon and Reagan appointee, came up with a proposal. Instead of letting the meddling chancellors control the faculty, the Regents could appoint the teachers themselves and save a lot of needless anxiety about men like Marcuse...
...When Pauley's plan appeared on the Regents' docket, the chancellors' outcry was immediate. The residual liberals on the Regents joined them, as did students demonstrators at all the UC campuses. All denounced the Regents' blatant attempt to impose political limitations on the faculty...
...more surprising source of opposition, however, came from Charles Hitch, the president of the UC system. Even though he had backed some of Reagan's moves during the Cleaver turmoil, Hitch came out flatly against Pauley and gave a list of practical objections. Long before the New York Times pointed out the trend last month, Hitch and his chancellors had watched with anguish as professors fled the increasingly-restrictive UC climate for Harvard and the East. If Pauley's plan were adopted, Hitch said, the University would have a hard time holding any of its faculty. Another administrator said that...
This month, the board voted 16 to 4 to reject the Reagan budget, which even conservative Regent Edwin W. Pauley described as "unlivable." In a detailed, 15-page analysis, Hitch argued that the budget provides no money at all for new programs or improvements, will curtail much-needed growth at new campuses in Santa Cruz, San Diego and Irvine. Officials at Berkeley insist that 1,600 students will have to spend at least an additional quarter on campus because required classes are overcrowded. The cuts will even reduce planned additions to university police...
Last week the band capped off the first Los Angeles Jazz Festival with an electrifying performance that brought 4,000 jazz buffs in U.C.L.A.'s Pauley Pavilion to their feet, cheering "More! More!" The trim, bearded Ellis lunged about the stage whipping the music to a demonic pitch, molding the arrangements on the spot by cuing his men in and out with shouts and hand signals. Occasionally, he pivoted and loosed a flock of high-flying notes from a specially made four-valve trumpet that enables him to play 24 tones in an octave, rather than the usual twelve...