Word: regentes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...report was directed by Jerome C. Byrne, 39, a labor-law specialist and honors graduate of Harvard Law School, whose partnership in the respected Los Angeles law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher made him seem a sensible choice to investigate the eight months of unrest at Cal. But when Regent Chairman Edward Carter saw the report, he angrily called Byrne a "young, inexperienced guy, unaware of the pitfalls in a university administration." President Clark Kerr buttoned his lip, but was reported to be upset...
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...
...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...