Word: cleaver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...announcing the Regents' decision to reject Cleaver's appointment, U.C. President Charles J. Hitch said last week that the Regents based their action on "a long-standing Harvard rule that anyone who lectures more than twice must receive official approval...
Meanwhile, a showdown appears imminent at Berkeley as classes begin today. At a press conference yesterday afternoon, the organizers of Cleaver's course announced that the course will hold its first meeting today, despite the Regents' decision. U.C. faculty members met late last night in an effort to find a solution to the faculty-administration power struggle that has developed out of the Cleaver controversy...
...problems began early last month when U.C.'s Board of Educational Development (BED) announced the creation of an experimental course on racism with black militant Cleaver as main lecturer...
...Cleaver's appointment was immediately opposed by most state officials, including Gov. Ronald Regan and Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh. Citing Cleaver's "preaching of racism and violence," his criminal record, and his lack of formal education, the U.C. Regents voted on Sept. 20 not to approve the course...
...members have since protested the Regents' action, claiming" an intolerable incursion on academic freedom." One U.C. professor predicted last night that the result of the faculty's emergency meeting will be a statement asking for the return of BED powers and for creation of a special committee to get Cleaver's course approved...