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...vehicle for these harrowing threats is a proposal now before the Board of Regents. The proposal would change the appointment procedure throughout the UC system by denying the chancellors of the nine UC campuses the right to appoint their own professors. Instead, Ronald Reagan and his 24-man Board of Regents would be able to hire, fire, select, and reject all faculty members in the nine colleges...
...next step on the road to this week's proposal came last month. Going through their regular list of UC faculty appointments, the Regents came across the name of Herbert Marcuse. Now there was a name that Reagan recognized. If there was any person more offensive to Reagan's concept of orderly campuses than Eldridge Cleaver, it would have to be Marcuse. For several months Reagan had fumed about Marcuse's role in fanning protest flames that the Regents' fire brigade was trying to put out. How can we ever stop these riots, Reagan would say, when we have that...
...realistic step towards stopping riots, ousting Marcuse was obviously absurd. In the sunny San Diego campus of the UC system, Marcuse did little but walk the beaches with his crowd of devotees. Clumps of five or six Marcusians would discuss revolution as they strolled from the UCSD campus to their beach houses in affluent La Jolla, but there was little real revolution brewing at UCSD. Marcuse's books, of course, exerted an enormous international impact. But even in their grandest moments of self-congratulation, the Regents wouldn't have imagined that it was Marcuse's post at UCSD that gave...
...Regents, who had previously held control of all course offerings in the University system, created the BED as an outlet for student and faculty dissatisfaction. The BED is composed of six professors and one professor-administrator. Until last week, it had completely independent power to create new courses at UC. Its decisions were subject to approval neither by the chancellors nor by the Regents...
...Many UC faculty members who had originally opposed Cleaver's appointment began to unite against this obvious threat to their independence. The BED issued a statement asking the public to consider the dangers in the legislature's action, and BED members, in private interviews, defended the course...