Word: reagan
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While campaigning for the governorship of California, Ronald Reagan promised to do something about radical student activities at the University of California's Berkeley campus. Liberal fears of an attack on academic freedom grew after Reagan was elected, and The New Republic printed a pithy addendum to two articles on university crackdowns in Argentina and Rhodesia that asked: "Could it happen here...
...governor-elect has asked John McCone, a former CIA head who reported on the Watts riots for the Johnson administration, to choose 15 prominent men willing to serve on a committee to investigate controversial student problems at Berkeley. The University's Board of Regents, Reagan proposes, would then pick five from the group who would write a report which the Regents could, in the end, deal with as they...
...Regents, as Reagan admitted this summer, "could legally sell the University if they wanted to." Although he chairs the body, most of the other members are prominent citizens appointed, in many cases by the Brown administration for long terms. The Regents have in the past been very careful to leave matters of student conduct up to the university administrators. When asked last year by Governor Brown to investigate charges of treasonable demonstrations, sex, and drug sprees on campus, the Regents soon returned a short report leaving the whole matter to Berkeley Chancellor Roger Heyns...
...Reagan is probably willing to let it go at that again, just so the Regents approve, as they are sure to do, enough of an investigation to honor his campaign promise. He insists that he promised an investigation only to allay Californians' anxiety about the University. He would also like to get some of the Democratic appointees off the Board of Regents, but the law prevents him from doing that for some time...
Reagon occasionally expresses a curious sympathy for student radicals. "I worry about the students who get lost in a big University like Berkeley," Reagan said this summer. "I went to a small school myself. Everyone there had to get involved. I can imagine the appeal some of these university student groups must have. For the first time someone is reaching out and saying: "We want...