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Kerr' dismissal may be the beginning
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Senate Session Off
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Often Conflicting
Editor-In-Chi-

BERKELEY, Calif. -- The Regents of the University of California today began the searcli
for a new president following
their decision to dismiss Dr.
Clark Kerr Friday.
But the controversy over the
manner in which Kerr was fired
still rages and the feud between
Kerr and Republican Gov. Ronald
Reagan grows still hotter.
"The matter of a vote of
confidence was brought up by
Dr. Kerr, not by the board,"
the Republican governor said in
Los Angeles. "His request came
as a complete surprise to all of
us," Reagan said. The governor
voted in the 14-- 8 majority to fire
Kerr.

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Nurses Militant About Low Pay
nurse complains, one of the
troubles with nursing is the
"Florence Nightingale bit."
Sure, nurses in this state agree
with their colleagues across the
nation, "we are 'devoted, dedicated'." But we are also educated

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First of five parts.
and valuable." They wonder why
such dedication requires them to
be paid, in some places, less
than the gardeners who tend the
hospital grounds.
"For years I'd been a dedicated nurse carrying Florence
Nightingale's torch. Then one
day I looked up and found the
torch was out," another nurse
says.
Nurses are detennined to be
heard. "They will not be palliated by a pat on the head and

utterances of hackneyed cliches"
alxnit their obligation to trad,
tion, a California male nurse
points out.
Actually, Nurse Nightingale

is losing its appeal. They decried low pay, long hours, bad
working conditions,
duties and other drudgevvork,
meager fringe benefits,
rale, slipping prestige, and
attraction of other careers for the
girl who wants to "help others."
Because of these, too few
people are entering the profession, and too many are leaving, at a time when they all
are desperately needed. Perhaps
the most revealing commentary
is that some 200,000 RN's have
left the profession prior to their
normal retirement.
Thus, America is faced with
a serious shortage of nurses, a
deficit that reflects the general
lack of allied health personnel.
The shortage is so severe that
many of the sick are getting
sicker for want of adequate attention. "There is a direct relationship between the economic
position of nurses and quality
patient care," argues Jo Eleanor
Elliot, president of the American
Nurses Association (ANA), in
Boulder, Colo. The health personnel shoitage, a Washington
expert agrees, is the "greatest
single obstacle" to quality medical care for all.
non-nursin-

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would have echoed these sentiments without hesitation. Her
real dedication was to obtaining
for nursing the image of a profession offering the status, high
pay, and education necessary to
attract the best recruits.
What has extinguished the
torch? Nurses, hospital administrators, teachers, and public officials were asked why nursing

By DARRELL CHRISTIAN

Special and New York Time Dispatches

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The Torch

Letter responds to Austin Pcoy
dent's "Dixie" letter: Poge Four.

Presidential
Search On

The Faculty Council of the University Senate has cancelled
the special meeting of the Senate scheduled for Monday.
This meeting had been planstudent rights
ned to continue discussion on a report concerning
and discipline.
W. Garrett Flickinger, chairman of the Student Advisory
Committee, who had called for
the special meeting, said questions have been raised about the
authority under which the special
meeting would have been called.
The Senate Council decided
By WALTER GRANT
to cancel the meeting so as to
Kernel
avoid later challenge as to the
"The governor's statement is
An urban university plans a
validity of any action which completely false," Kerr said later
stadollar football
might be taken, Flickinger said. at his home. "I have never asked
dium on the fringes of the comFor the past 11 months, the for a vote of confidence and I
munity in which it is located,
Faculty Council has examined didn't Friday."
this
but ignores the problems
relationthe University-studen- t
will bring to the city.
Kerr, at a salary of
amship in the area of discipline
Or this university, in an
was the only stateofficial
rea
and has produced
bitious plan for campus developof existing procedures and making more than the governor.
port
ment and expansion, decides it
recommendations for change.
The bitterness between Kerr
is necessary to close a major
If adopted by the Senate, the and Reagan began during Reabisecting the camthoroughfare
committee's
recommendations
gan's successful bid to unseat
pus.
Gov. Pat Brown last November.
will be sent to University Presia state university, this
Being
dent John VV. Oswald to be passDuring the campaign Reagan
institution in its needed expawas strongly critical of the way
ed along to the Tnistees for apabsorb private propnsionmay
Kerr was running the
proval.
erty on the campus fringes
university and charged that
The postponed meeting has
of eminent
through the power
been rescheduled for Feb. 13, at he had allowed the school's
domain.
the regular time.
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By JOHN ZEII
Kernel Associate Editor
A century ago Florenc e Nightingale lit the lamp of professionalism in nursing, fueling the flame
with sacrifice, selflessness, and
dedication. Now, a Kentucky

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hospitals: Page Seven.

STUDENTS BOYCOTT
KERR DISMISSAL
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Special To The Kernel

LOS

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of

the 87,000 Univ ersity of California students are meeting today
to determine what action to take
in the wake of Friday's firing
of University President Clark
K

err.

There were reports Sunday,
largely unconfirmed, that a class
boycott would be in effect today
on at least four of the systems
OSWALD AND KERR
nine campuses.
The only confirmed report of
an organized classroom strike
came from the UC campus at
Irvine. However, reports indicated that thecampuses at Davis,
FRANK BROWNING
By
Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz
Kernel Associate Editor
also had endorsed the idea.
Two political science profesThe lx)ycott, opposed by stusors and President John W. Oswald each expressed shock and dents at UCLA, drew its strongdismay at Friday's dismissal of est support from Santa Barbara,
where organizers undertook a
University of California President Clark Kerr.
telephone campaign to recmit
"I was deeply shocked and students across the state to the
saddened at this event for I protest.
UCLA students, according to
consider Dr. Kerr, as do many,
an Associated Press report from
many others, one of the nation's
Los Angeles, were "adament"
outstanding education leaders,"
in rejecting the boycott idea as
Oswald told the Kernel.
Oswald was vice president student body President Bob Michaels had suggested.
for administration at California
"We originally suggested
before he came to Kentucky. Both
he and Mrs. Oswald are close
looking into the possibility of a
student strike on Friday, but
family friends of the Kerrs.
Dr. Frank Marini and Dr.
changed our minds," the report
Robert Pranger, both doctoral
quoted Michaels as saying. "Education is the primary reason
from Berkeley, tabbed
graduates
the Kerr dismissal as closely we are at the university.
"The strike would be detrirelated to Gov. Ronald Reagan's
mental to this goal."
election last fall.
Michaels and other student
Roth men also see a great
leaders around the state met
mark for the future acaquestion
at UCLA Saturday to discuss
demic prominence of Berkeley
the student uproar ov er the Kerr
but neither question the likelihood of possible student demonfiring.
One source saidMichaelspre-sentestrations as a result of the disa petition signed by 5,000
missal.
students to the regents Friday
According to political theorist
Marini, the future of what last protesting a controversial tuition
proposal by California Cov.
year was recognized as the nation's top university in graduate Ronald Reagon. After Kerr was
education, depends to a large fired, Michaels said he'd ask
Ixiycott of classes.
degree on where Reagan and his for a
asstx'iates move from here.
Continued On Page 3
"If they (the regents) hire
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphey
from the Los Angeles campus-h- e's
a conservative guy Berkeley's in for real trouble.
"I'd expect some petitions,
rallies, tough talking, and
threats" by students, Marini
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said. The question, again, in
his mind is w hat such demonstrations would really accom-

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said. However, Marini explained
that changing the composition of
the Board is under much discussion by Berkeley students. "This
may encourage some of the students to make their ideas
know
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the same time he empha"this might give the

sized that

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Continued from PaRf 1
cley campus to become a haven
for "the New Left."
The feud continued after Hea-gawas elected when he announced that the budget of all
state agencies including the
university would be cut 10 percent and that he was proposing
a $400 a year tuition to make
up the difference. Cal, and the
other
colleges,
have traditionally offered an edto California
ucation tuition-fre- e
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state-support-

students.
Kerr at that time called the

University of California the nation's best and settled down for
a long fight with the governor.
He called for a halt in admissions to the university until the
budget question was settled and
began to muster the support of

the state's powerful

education

somewhat later. The meetings of
the regents are closed to the
public and the press.
Kerr, who has steadfastly refused to resign, said that Meyer
and Mrs. Dorothy Chandler, a
regent and wife of the Los Angeles Times president, told him
of the regents' decision and asked
if he wished the opportunity to
resign. "I told them no," Kerr
said.
Kerr and llerkeley Chancellor
was "somewhat surprised" and
that he was not aware his tenure Martin Meyerson had resigned
after the Free Speech demonwould be a question. The regents
had on the agendathediscussion
strations of 196-- but they withdrew the resignations when the
of the governor's financial measures.
regents promised them a free
Heagan, attending his first hand in running the university.
At that time Kerr and a conmeeting as the board's
president, left shortly after the servative faction of the regents
had been at odds over how to
vote was taken and the announcement was not made public until
handle the student demonstra
bloc.
ThcHxlore Meyer, president of
the regents, backed Kerr's version of the dismissal and said
the president had not asked for
the vote of confidence. Meyer
had asked Kerr to leave the meeting, he said, after some members
of the regents suggested that the
presidency be discussed.
Kerr afterwards said that he

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governor bis chance to really
go in there and 'clean up Berkeley.'"
Marini was a Berkeley student from 1961-6- 6 except for the
1963-6- 4
year. He was a teaching
assistant during his last year.
Pranger too was a student
at Berkeley, and last summer
he taught there.
"I was surprised. It's not a
very good precedent. Cal is supposedly insolated from such political influence," he said.
He noted Reagan's influence
and the likelihood of some University politics as contributors
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"I see him as a well meaning
liberal man, but he's not faced
up to a lot of realities namely
right wing pressures. He's been
sitting on a time bomb. It went

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to that "fiction" he counted the
presence of a history of liberal
people in the California
"Now they've got a conservative," he added.
"I never guessed it would
happen now." Since Reagan's
been in office the University of
California has been in the papers
every day. Heagan's never let
up on him.
As to faculty exits, Pranger
said, "I think it'll happen quite
a lot. Just about everybody there
has got either offers or feelers."
He emphasized the stability such
faculty could get at comparable
Ivy League schools.
"The faculty's too mobile to
put up with this nonsense. I
don't think Heagan cares."
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In particular Pranger emphasized Kerr's role as similar to
that in all state universities. And
that particularity is having to
face taxpayers and influences
from the state political struc-

ture.
"California has a very poor
political climate for quality higher education," Pranger said.
The ouster of Kerr, head of
what he termed, "the multiversity" since 193S, generated shock
waves across the American academic world.

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"It would appear," he said,
"that the extremists of the far
right in the regents and the far
left in the student body and
faculty have achieved their common purpose in destroying the
university's liberal leadership."
Robert Goheen, president of
Princeton University, said "In
the face of a very difficult situation, Dr. Kerr acted as well as
any human being could have.
This trouble has come down on
a remarkably able person who
possessed a deep understanding
of the problems faced by higher
education."
Glenn Dumke, chancellor of
California stale colleges, said,
"To fire Kerr is probably the
greatest blow to the higher education since the founding of the
university 99 years ago."
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Firing May Begin CaPs Fall From The Stars
By FRED M. HECIIINGER
(r) Nfw Vork Times Nwi Service

When Dr. Clark Kerr was
removed from the presidency of

the University of California last
week, his ixisition had already
been undermined by those who
stand most to lose by his departure the students.
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Nctcs Analysis
inn a university of lessened national prestige and lowered educational standards.
The
activists had
baited him time and again as
the sy mbol of the "system." Because Dr. Kerr coined the term
"multiversity" he was accused
of favoring the dehumanization
of the campus. But as a liberal,
with a strong belief in the inde
left-win-

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pendence of higher education
from outside interference, Kerr
staunchly defended the students
against efforts by the Board of
Hegcnts to abrogate their rights.
As a liberal, too, he was considered "the enemy" byleftwing
students as well as by the conservatives among the regents.
Even though the "filthy speech
movement" of two years ago
challenged his authority as head
of the system, he defeated the
regents' attempt to expell the
students. This defeat continued
to rankle the conservatives among
the regents, and they struck as
soon as Gov. Ronald Reagan was
in the driver's seat.
While such jockeying for
power provides the visible drama,
the most important issue is the
academic impact on
the nation's foremost public
long-rang- e

Student Leaders Meet
To Discuss Response
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The only other report of any
significant student demonstration was from the Davis campus,
the first in its history. However,
there was no confirmation of any
such activ ity.

Oddly enough, the quietest
of all UC campuses so far appears to be Berkeley, scene of
the Free Speech Movement and
student protests of 1964-65.

The Daily Califomian, the
Berkeley student newspaper, told
the Kernel there have been "very
mixed reactions . . . the radicals
are pleased while the student
government is lamenting his
(Kerr's) loss."

John Oppedaho,
of the newspaper, said no
"boycott of classes will take
place on this campus at all."
The Associated Students Senate, which meets Monday night,
is expected to draft a resolution
in support of Kerr as is the
Academic Senate Tuesday.
Oppedaho said some faculty
members already have sent telegrams to the regents objecting
to the decision. "There was no
no consultation with
notice
faculty members or students,"
he added. "Nor did they give
any reasons for firing Kerr."
The Daily Californian criticized the regents' decision and
how it was made in an editorial
today.

While the threat to eliminate
free tuition dominates the headlines, it is less crucial than the

below $10 million in faculty
aries alone.

question of the budget. By overruling Kerr's decision to limit
enrollments rather than jeopardize academic quality, the regents apparently ran for cover
as soon as the wrath of the
college-bounpopulation began
to be felt.

Yet the proposed budget
would give the university $7 million less in actual funds. And
even that low figure already includes an expected $20 million
from tuition and $22 mil ion from
the regents special funds which
are usually set aside for quality
education purtxjscs.
The popular idea, expediently
accepted by many politicians,
appears to be that additional
students can be absorbed if only
there are enough seats in the
classrooms.
In reality, adding extra students without extra funds means
larger classes, less contact with
the experienced faculty and
greater reliance on graduate students as teaching assistants. The
use of these
devices is already under attack
at the University of California.
All academic hands agreed after
the 1964 student rebellion that
reforms would require more instruction by senior faculty
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But while assurance that all
comers will continue to be served
may appease the public, simple

academic arithmetic shows that
the real delemma is yet to be
faced.

An anticipated enrollment increase of just under 10,000 next
September naturally calls for
added teaching staff. Based on
a ratio of one faculty member
for every 15 students not a generous proportion the instructional staff of the nine campuses
would have to be expanded by
almost 660. Using an annual
salary average of $15,000, the
added enrollment calls for just

sal-

Unless dramatic action is
taken quickly, it is feared th.it
the big university with S7.000
students may experience the most
disastrous "brain drain" to hit
any modern American institution. Such an exodus followed
by replacement on a lower level
of talent would be far more
significant than any faculty protests or walkouts which may
also occur.

Bulletin Board
John Parks, psychiatrist-directo- r
of the Comprehensive Care
Center of the Central Kentucky
Regional Mental Health Association, will moderate a panel discussion at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in
the Medical Center Auditorium.

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Sikai. ilocco, Editorial l'ae Editor

Editor-in-Chi-

Wii.mam Knait, Business Manager

Eulogy To Greatness

The reason is quite simple. The

in mind for those who have built
a truly great educational system
in California, so be it.
For a man such as Kerr, and
those that will leave in a steady
stream behind him, will have little
trouble in finding a new work,
new challenges. Virtually every university in the nation must have
placed offers before many Cal faculty members during the weekend.
And many of these faculty members and administrators will find
the best offer among those they
have received and will leave.
Therein lies the tragedy of Friday's action. It was, as many distinguished educators said, "a tragedy" for higher education. But
most specifically, it was a tragedy
for the dream that was the California system of higher education.

distinguished faculty includingl2

The system may never recover.

Studies may disagree
how great the University
ornia is, but they agree
thing it is among the

on just
of Califon one

world's

greatest universities.
Secretary of Health, Education,
and Welfare John Gardner echoed
this same theme not long ago in
an address at Stanford University

when he referred to UC and specifically the Berkeley campus as
"one of the world's great universities."
But the startling action of the
of California Regents
Friday ,vi dismissing Dr. Clark Kerr
as the school's president may well
have signaled the beginning, if
not the end, of UC's reign among
the finest.
University

Nobel lau rates is going to be very
hesitant to remain at a school so
obviously under the political thumb
of right-win- g
Gov. Ronald Reagan.
For it is the new governor, with
a flash of his famous smile and
an unequal ed display of his lack
of administrative finesse, who led
the regents into the action against
Dr. Kerr. Reagan, and a large segment of the regents, have been
foes of Kerr ever since he insisted
that an orderly disciplinary process
be used to punish the student demonstrators in 1964 rather than the
immediate ouster favored by many
of the board. In fact, Kerr made
few friends among California
as long ago as the early
1950' s when as a Berkeley faculty
member he opposed the state's
loyalty oath.
Dr. Kerr's ability as both an
right-winge-

rs

educator and administrator is unquestioned, and so great ishis personal record that few will accept
the ridiculous explanation of Mrs.
Randolph Hearst and others that
he was fired "for lack of administrative ability."
It is Dr. Kerr who has presided
over the unequaled period of growth
at Cal and it is the loss of such a
president that will tell heavily on
the system.
But hardest to take is the manner in which the regents have
brushed aside the 22 years that
Dr. Kerr had given the university.
If such is to be the reward
that the Reagan administration has

Kernel
The life of humanity upon this
planet may yet come to an end,
and a very terrible end. But I
would have you noticethat this end
is threatened in our time not
that the universe may do
to us, but only by what man may
do to himself.

John Haynes Holmes

JSI:
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Number One China Watcher

Letters To The Editor

Readers Write In 'Dixie's' Behaf (Sic)
Editor's Note: Thefollowinglet-te- r where it will stay. They are big
hearted people.
is written by two faculty members of the University's Department
We hope you will always rememBeliavorial Science in response ber the maine things Jim said,
of
to a letter appearing in the Jan. 18 that songs are intended to make
Kernel, written by "Dixiecrat" Jim people happy that is why we sing
Savage of Austin Peay College. The Massa's inthcCold, ColdGround
authors have requested that the Ker- and "No one likes anything such
nel not "clean up" their spelling, as suppression of freedom of speech
syntax or style. This letter lias and song to be shoved down their
been submitted to the Letters to throat." We was infuriated that
the Editor section of the student the Kernel put one of them sic
marks after "suppression" because
newspaper at Austin Peay.
that's the way our dicktionary spells
To the Editor of the Kernel:
mark makes Jim
We was hartened to read that it, and the sic
look bad.
actually one of your junior histry
To bring this to a close, let's
students urged not to do away
all hope that Jim don't loose his
with the song Dixie from our school
events like them either Yankees or confederate flags and Dixie.
Communists was abdicating.
David Hall, PhD.
Like Jim Savage says, why not
Assistant Prof.
the song Dixie in Dixie? Just
Behavioral Science
sing
like Southernors sing Marching
Gene Gallagher, Ph.D.
Through Georgia in Georgia and
Americanors sing My Country Tis
Associate Prof
Behavioral Science
of Thee in America, only we was
infuriated to lern that in England,
the Englandors sing the same song
Kernel, (io North!
and calls it God Save the King.
It's about time the Kernel and
As for the Englandors, since they the others who feel that Dixie
lost the war, that is good; we should be done
away with at UK
should substitute the song Yankee
sporting events grow up or move
Doodle. As for the King, we might to the North.
substitute the chant We Sliall Over1
was always under the imcome because the opozition has got
pression that, the band was supahead and the Queen has took over posed to promote
spirit for supthe events.
of UK teams. Dixie does just
port
It's tnie what they say about that. Just because the Kernel and
Dixie. Dixie refers that people are a few other radicals purpose to
glad to be in Dixie. That's why it inject racial overtones into the
was written before the Civil War "Song of the South" is no reason
by a man some people call Anony- to abandon it.
The majority of the students
mous in New York. Like Jim says
asstutely, we can't let the Yankees who stand and cheer when Dixie
and Communist take it away the is played are doing so because
song because the Southernors have they are proud of being southern
their hearts in Dixie and that is and are not cheering segregation.

Even if they are, that's their own
personal business. Aren't we still
entitled to think for ourselves?
If the persons responsible for
the editorial of Jan. 18 are not
mature enough to realize that
southerners can be proud of the

South without promoting segreg