Word: presse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile, a showdown appears imminent at Berkeley as classes begin today. At a press conference yesterday afternoon, the organizers of Cleaver's course announced that the course will hold its first meeting today, despite the Regents' decision. U.C. faculty members met late last night in an effort to find a solution to the faculty-administration power struggle that has developed out of the Cleaver controversy...
...yesterday's press conference, Samula Kaplan, a sociology instructor who helped organize the course, said that it will hold an organizational meeting today. Cleaver will not speak at today's meeting Kaplan said, but is scheduled to lecture on Thursday...
...like. Power, the role of leader, fell to him arbitrarily. He was the head of SDS at Columbia in the spring of '68 as he was trying to do. what other heads of SDS had always been trying to do. Then the sit-ins worked just right; and the press made him a national figure. Rudd, himself, insists that he is no more the leader of the revolt than half a dozen other people...
...Rudd is always being asked to explain things and is badgered by the press to vocal exhaustion. However, one can't help but feel that his tendency to let the urgency of political endeavor get in the way of a careful choice of his words is a little scary...
Southern whites too were quick to see what was happening. In many small towns, the seemingly cheery acquiescence to Northern laws was in reality a cagey poker-face cover for continued Southern resistance. Bitter experience with the Northern press had convinced the whites that the best way to clamp down on Negro progress was to clamp down on Negro progress was to keep the press away; and the best way to do that was to avoid trouble. So the "White Only" signs disappeared, and so did the press...