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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1965)
Berkeley Campus 1Uncertain of Future Jt By BOB CARL managing Editor BERKELEY, Cal. (Special) — The Berkeley campus of the Uni versity of California, torn last year by civil disobedience, riot ing and demonstrations that led to the arrests of nearly 800 per sons, opened its doors for fall classes Sept. 13 as a new breed of students converged on the school. The “new breed”—or the “ac tivists” as they are sometimes called—are returning this year to a new chancellor and a new set of rules. This year’s students at Berke ley will undoubtedly be cautious about any innivations that fol lowed last year’s turmoil. But many are expressing hope that the campus rules of student con duct will preclude any need for civil disobedience this year. Last year’s rioting erupted “be cause of the lack of freedom of speech,” according to Mario Sa vio, the acknowledged ring-leader of the demonstrations However, newly-appointed Chancellor Roger Heyns has taken steps to protect tree speech. Campus Turmoil “Constitutionally protected speech will not be subject to University discipline,” he said. The entire campus is in a tur moil, even during final’s week of summer session hundreds of stu dents milled around the Sproule Hall steps, discussing and argu ing. Just as the chancellorship has changed, and along with the new rules, the traditional stu dent-type is very scarce on the Berkeley campus. Football practice still goes on as the head-knockers prepared themselves for their Sept. 18 kick-off game, and the sororities will still have rush this year. (Of the 27.000 students on campus, only 340 signed up for sorority rush.) Fraternity houses will be empty on the Berkeley campus this year—in spite of the fact that housing is in very short supply around the campus. And, although few will predict trouble for the upcoming year, there are obvious sorespots that will have to be ironed out. Obvious Sorespots The Daily Californian, campus newspaper, says of the new rules: “The rules are good, perhaps the best that they can be under the circumstances. . . . There are no rules restricting freedom of speech or advocacy. . . .” However, the paper noted that the rules would be put into ef fect, on Sept. 16, before return ing students would have a chance to read them, although Chan cellor Heyns asked for student comment and criticism. The paper also protests Uni versity of California President Clark Kerr's stipulation which says: “Each Chancellor may ap point such faculty, student or other advisory committees or in dividual advisors as he desires, but the final authority for ad ministration of student disci pline rests with the Chancellor, except that expulsion requires approval by the President.” Another potential danger area centers around teaching assist ants. Teaching Assistants President Kerr has called the University of California a multi versity; students have objected to the fact that they can seldom see their teachers. Therefore, there is often a great deal of con tact between the T.A.’s and stu dents. However, after last year’s riots, the California legislature cut the Irish Author Visiting, Will Teach Writing Benedict Thomas Joseph Kiely,! prominent Irish writer, will be a visiting professor of English at the University during the 1965-66 academic year. Kiely will teach courses in cre ative writing in the Department of English, assuming some of the teaching duties of James B. Hall,, who has left the University for a teaching position in California. The Irish author has spent the! past year as writer-in-residence at Hollins College in Virginia. He is a graduate of the National Uni versity of Ireland, University Col lege, Dublin. Kiely's creative writing includes the books Land Without Stars, In a Harbour Green, Call for a Miracle, The Cards of the Gam bler, Honey Seems Better, There Was an Ancient House, and The Captain with the Whiskers. He has written a volume of short stories and three non-fic tion books, including Counties of Contention: A Study of the Ori gins and Implications of the Par tition bf Ireland. Kiely has contributed to numer ous publications, such as The Bell, The Kilkenny Magazine, Irish Writing, and Envoy in Ire land; The Spectator and The Mouth in Great Britain; and The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Kenyon Re view, and Texas Quarterly in the United States. Kiely’s work in progress in cludes a novel and a critical book about the Big House and Irish literature. The writer is married and has four children. Are Your TIRES TIRED? 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New Rules One of last year's bitterly con tested sore-points—admission of the graduate students to the As sociated Students of the Univer sity of California—is still un settled. and could be a cause for trouble. And the new rules, definitely conduct, it was against university regulations for students or a student group to advocate an ofT campus cause. Now, however, Hcyns and the University of California allow students and •‘students only” groups to sponsor and even or ganize programs and committees for off-campus action. In fact, the Viet Nam Day Committee, with headquarters five blocks oIT campus, is pres ently soliciting funds and mem bership on the Berkeley campus for two days of protesting and civil disobedience. Massive Unrest Michael O'Hanlon, campus co ordinator for the committee, and the only non student on its steel ing committee, told the Kmerald that the committee, known as the VDC, wants "excessively large demonstrations against the U.S war machine.” And on Oct. H> 17 the VDC plans a “teach-in, followed by a massive march of 8,000-10.000 people to the Oakland Army Ter minal; followed there by massive civil disobedience.” O’Hanlon said that simultane ous action will be taken in 20 states, including Oregon, and five countries. mi improvement for the campus, may bring headaches to the sur rounding communities. Up until Chancellor Heyns is sued his new rules for student He said, however, that "barring unforeseen difficulties, there will lie no civil disobedience on cam pus," He said the VDC plans to march and protest nIT campus, and talk on campus. 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