Six Weeks in Spring, 1985, 1985

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Summary

Title:
Six Weeks in Spring, 1985: Managing Student Protest at UC Berkeley.,
Dates:
1985
Extent:
Number of containers:3 boxes (including 29 cassette tapes) Linear feet: .8
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Six Weeks in Spring, 1985: Managing Student Protest at UC Berkeley., CU-150.1, University Archives, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Background

Scope and content:

Transcripts and tapes of sixteen interviews conducted during July-August 1985 documenting events on the University of California, Berkeley, campus in April-May 1985 and administrative response to student activities protesting university policy on investments in South Africa.

The interviews were conducted by Gabrielle Morris and Julie Sherer of the Regional Oral History Office, at the request of and underwritten by the Berkeley's Office of the Chancellor.

Interviewees include Ira Michael Heyman, chancellor, Watson M. Laetsch, Roderic B. Park, and Ronald W. Wright, vice-chancellors, Richard P. Haffner, public affairs officer, John Cummins and Michael R. Smith, chancellor's staff, Patrick Hayashi and B. Thomas Travers, undergraduate affaris, Mary F. Jacobs, Hal Reynolds and Michelle Woods, student affairs, and Derry Bowles, William Foley, Joseph Johnson and Ellen R. Stetson, campus police.

The collection also includes supporting documents, including ephemera, leaflets and news accounts of the protests.

Acquisition information:
Transferred from the Regional Oral History Office in 1986
Physical location:
For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Processed by The Bancroft Library staff
Date Prepared:
© 1999
Date Encoded:
Machine-readable finding aid derived from MS Word; finding aid encoded by Xiuzhi Zhou. Date of source: 1999.

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Six Weeks in Spring, 1985: Managing Student Protest at UC Berkeley., CU-150.1, University Archives, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Location of this collection:
University of California, Berkeley, University Archives, The Bancroft Library
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US
Contact:
(510) 642-6481
bancref-library@berkeley.edu
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