Editorials on Cal’s fence crisis and press freedom
The Daily Californian weathered a crisis by changing editors after a park fence incident sparked campus uproar. The piece argues campus papers rely on university control and student fees, urging self funding and self regulation like Ivy League schools to benefit editors, officials, and readers.
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Daily
Californian
University of California
People's Park
Berkeley
University Regents
Harvard
Yale
Cal
Cooler than a gavel: judge faults over floodlight clash
The El Centro judge Hugh Keating sparked a dispute after knocking down a floodlight outside his office during a confrontation with a KNBC cameraman C. Paul Meeks. A later ruling by Judge Victor A. Gillespie raises concerns about decorum and judicial conduct. The editorial urges the California Judicial Council to review courtroom behavior in local courts.
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Hugh Keating
el Centro
Civil labels and civility in law from Chief Justice Burger
Warren Burger, chief justice of the United States, warned that civility in the bar is essential as lawyers threaten to become ill mannered noisemakers. He said disruptive tactics masquerade as zeal and could erode justice and society, urging moderating influence by judges, professors, and the profession. He recalled Britain’s tightly regulated courts after aggressive conduct rose. Civility, he insisted, is indivisible.
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Warren Bulger
United States
Burger
Today’s books at a glance SOUTH CAROLINA profiles and Memoirs
A South Carolina documentary profile edited by Elmer D. Johnson and Kath leen Lewis Sloan from Univ of South Carolina Press lists six centuries of Palmetto State life with varied peoples and eras. The Memoirs of Chief Red Fox edited by Cash Asher from McGraw-Hill presents a Sioux memoir tracing boyhood in the Big Horn foothills, frontier encounters, and travels with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show.
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South Carolina
Palmetto State
Elmer D. Johnson
Kathleen Lewis Sloan
Univ. of South Carolina Press
Chief Red Fox
Cash Asher
McGraw-Hill
Red Fox
Big Horn Mountains
Sioux Country
Custer
Buffain Bill
Third party talk of a lonely man in America
A 1970s column discusses George Wallace and Eugene McCarthyAdvocating a third party as a remedy to the two party system the piece notes McCarthy’s mixed signals and the risk of diluting the political field The analysis highlights how independents and reformers face a choice between reform and remaining outside the major parties.
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New York
Clinton Rossiter
George Wallace
Alabama
Eugene McCarthy
Minnesota
Bloomington
Minn
Persidential
America
Democrats
McCarthy
Republicans
Wallace
Nixon
Philadelphia
Reagan
Rockefeller
Agnew
Muskie
Humphrey
McGovern
Kennedy
Bayh
Plan to Move Welfare Off Dole Faces Fresh Debate
Washington lawmakers clash over the Welfare reform plan. Nixon’s Family Assistance Plan evolved into Mills Bill with $2,400 for a four person family plus state supplements. Critics warn of higher costs and weaker work incentives, while Rep Ullman proposes employability checks, work training, child care centers, and work expense allowances to curb welfare enrollment and encourage work.
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Washington
Nixon
TAP
House
Senate
Ways and Means Committee
Congress
Mills
al Uiman
Baker
Chamber of Commerce
Ullman
Critic weighs headline and marijuana in city comments
A reader questions a front page headline about Reds and cites vulgarity while two letters describe marijuana use near Long Beach State College and criticize police harassment of minority groups, calling for action on narcotics abuse and crime.
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Ridder
Senator Soaper By Bull Vaughan Speech Parody
A fragment cites Senator Soaper By Bull Vaughan delivering a loud bus runway line about life as a public report by Howard Cosell. The piece critiques industry assuming nonpolluting operations hire few people and notes pioneers who founded western cities did not choose sites ideal for urban renewal a century later.
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Victor A. Gillespie
Fl Centro Superior Court
Rockford Register-Republic
John Gardner
John Lindsay
Kingman Brewster
Rossiter
Gardner
Lindsay
Brewster
James Reston
NEW York Times News Service
Spiro
Ore
Ways and Means
Uilman
Labor Department
Welfare Department
AFDC
Ulman
James J
W. Watson Cross
Seal Beach Leisure World
California Club
California State College At
Long Beach
CSCLE
Long Beach Folie Department
Robert McCormick
Bull Vaughan
Howard Cosel
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