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...oldest and most prestigious branch at Berkeley. But the timing of the dismissal was a shock. Only a week earlier, Kerr had fought forcefully, in joint cause with most of the regents, against a 20% budget cut and a tuition fee proposed by newly installed Governor Ronald Reagan (TIME...
...budget and tuition proposals had been explained to the regents, he temporarily suspended student admissions, as did Glenn S. Dumke, chancellor of the 18 state colleges. It was an obvious political gesture designed to arouse Californians against the budget cut, and it caused consternation among prospective stu dents. Reagan, who regarded his proposals as "provisional" and subject to compromise, angrily called the freeze "precipitate and unwarranted." Equally disturbed were several of the regents, since Kerr had taken his action without consulting the board...
...actual firing came at the end of a relatively calm 1½-day public discussion of the budget, at which Reagan once again expressed his willingness to modify both the size of his cuts and the tuition fee. With business apparently completed, Theodore Meyer, a San Francisco lawyer and chairman of the regents,* told Kerr that the board wished to consult in private...
From previous conversations with Kerr, several of the regents had picked up the impression that he was weary of criticism and wanted his status clarified (he had not, however, sought a formal vote of confidence). Reagan's newly appointed Regent Allan Grant first suggested the firing, which was formally moved by Laurence J. Kennedy Jr., a lawyer and one of the ten regents appointed by former Governor Pat Brown. When the vote was taken, anti-Kerr ballots included those of Reagan, Oilman Edwin Pauley, Mrs. Norman Chandler and Retailer Edward Carter, who had been chairman during the time...
Afterward, Reagan said that "the regents have taken a very responsible action," and Chairman Meyer defended the dismissal as being necessary in order to end "the state of uncertainty" at the university. Speaker Unruh, who the day before had implicitly rejected Kerr's admissions freeze, declared that it set "a very dangerous precedent" to fire a president when an incoming Governor takes over. University officials, however, feared that the blunt manner of his dis missal would have an adverse effect on faculty recruiting. At some campuses, student organizations that less than a year ago were ready to demonstrate...