Word: ucsd
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...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...
Well-directed or not, the move against Marcuse failed. A long-standing UC rule gave each chancellor the right to name his own faculty members. The UCSD chancellor--knowing what his campus' biggest drawing card was--stood by Marcuse, and the Regents could not break...