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When things get sticky, the impulse of a board of governors is to "get a report." After last fall's student disorders at the University of California, the regents commissioned not one but two reports. The first, made last month by Regent Theodore Meyer and urging tightened student discipline, was a bit of a bomb; nobody objected violently or approved heartily. The second, released last week by investigators under Regent William Forbes, was a bit of a bombshell; it laid the university's troubles mostly on the regents and the administration and let the students off with...
Informed sources predicted last night that the Board of Regents will a wait the outcome of the faculty hearings before considering action in accordance with the Assembly resolution. If the faculty committee recommends expulsion of the students. Regent action would be unnecessary...
...inexperienced guard turned his back, and in a trice the 6-ft. Finnish prisoner was gone, lost in the foliage of London's Regent's Park. Though an official spokesman insisted "he's not dangerous," all London was alarmed, and telephone switchboards were soon jammed by the tipsters and the fearful. Gawkers flocked to the park by the thousands as the dragnet began to tighten. Radio trucks and prowl cars moved in, and giant searchlights were brought up to illuminate the park at night...
...Park. What everyone feared finally happened on the fugitive's sixth day of freedom. GOLDIE TURNS KILLER! screamed the Daily Express. Worse still, the killer had eaten the victim. It was a Muscovy duck that had been swimming innocently in a nearby pond as Goldie-the Regent's Park Zoo's proud golden eagle-yielded to the demands of an angry appetite...
...supporters of obscenity, Kerr might not have had to be so fastidious. Instead, he passed the buck to two faculty committees that had been set up to handle problems of student conduct in border line areas between scholarly discipline and lawbreaking. But in this case both refused to act. Regent Carter telephoned Kerr again, told him that if he did not punish the offenders, the regents would do so. Kerr thought that left him too little room to maneuver. He and the able new head of the Berkeley campus, Acting Chancellor Martin Meyerson, debated a bit, then told Carter that...