Word: reagan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soon as Ronald Reagan announced that California's budget for higher education would be slashed by ten per cent next year, bumper stickers saying "Had Enough? Impeach Reagan" bloomed on the freeways. Good-humored as this reaction seems, its suddenness confirms that Reagan made a colossal miscalculation; Californians, even those who pushed him into office with a million-vote margin, never intended him to tamper with the state's tuition-free system of higher education...
...What Reagan has suggested is charging tuition of $400 each to California students at the university and $200 each to those at the state colleges. In this way, the state would be able to maintain higher-education budgets at the same level as this year, but with a substantially smaller portion of the funds coming from the state. These recommendations took administrators and even the Board of Regents, the university's governing body, by surprise. They had asked for a fifteen per cent budget hike for 1967-68, because they anticipated a proportional increase in enrollment...
...Reagan was hung in effigy on several campuses, but the reaction of university administrators was even more violent and tantamount, his aides say, to "insubordination." Clark Kerr, the president of the nine-campus university system, whom Reagan would like to dump, said that if funds are cut, the quality of education will not be watered down; he would simply ask the Regents to restrict enrollment. Limiting the number of students eligible to attend the university, which is now open to any high school graduate in the top 12.5 per cent of his class, would be a shattering blow to Californians...
Coop officials emptied the buildings in ten minutes, telling customers and employees only that "everyone must leave by order of the Fire Department." Daniel J. Reagan, Deputy Fire Chief, said that "management handled the evacuation well -- there were no injuries...
...Reagan said that his department receives at least 15 bomb threats every year, mostly to public schools. Massachusetts law requires that all building mentioned in such threats be evacuated and searched...