Guide to the Six Weeks in Spring, 1985: Managing Student Protest at UC Berkeley., 1985

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Guide to the Six Weeks in Spring, 1985: Managing Student Protest at UC Berkeley., 1985

Collection number: CU-150.1

University Archives, The Bancroft Library



University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, California

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  • The Bancroft Library
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  • Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
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Processed by:
The Bancroft Library staff
Date Completed:
1999
Encoded by:
Xiuzhi Zhou
© 1999 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

Collection Summary

Collection Title: Six Weeks in Spring, 1985: Managing Student Protest at UC Berkeley.,
Date (inclusive): 1985
Collection Number: CU-150.1
Extent: Number of containers:3 boxes (including 29 cassette tapes) Linear feet: .8
Repository: The Bancroft Library. University Archives.
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Languages Represented: English

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Collection is open for research.

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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.

Related Collections

Additional leaflets may be found in
Title: Sather Gate Handbills
(308h.H24; arranged chronologically).

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Transferred from the Regional Oral History Office in 1986

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.

 

MEMORANDA

box 1, folder 1

Memorandum from Regional Oral History Office to Russell Ellis concerning interview series and copies of tables of contents of interviews.

 

TRANSCRIPTS OF INTERVIEWS

box 1, folder 2

Bowles, Derry: transcript 1, ROHO edited copy; narrator's editing not shown. (Berkeley campus chief of police)

box 1, folder 3

Bowles, Derry: transcript 2, edited and retyped by Bowles.

box 1, folder 4

Cummins, John (Special assistant to the chancellor)

box 1, folder 5

Foley, William (Campus police field coordinator)

box 1, folder 6

Hafner, Richard P. (Public affairs officer)

box 1, folder 7

Hayashi, Patrick (Senior administrative analyst, Undergraduate Affairs)

box 1, folder 8

Heyman, Ira Michael (Chancellor)

box 1, folder 9

Jacobs, Mary F. (Student activities officer)

box 1, folder 10

Johnson, Joseph (Campus police student liaison)

box 1, folder 11

Laetsch, Watson M. (Vice-chancellor for student affairs)

box 1, folder 12

Park, Roderic B. (Vice-chancellor)

box 1, folder 13

Reynolds, Hal (Student affairs and services staff)

box 1, folder 14

Smith, Michael R. (Chancellor's legal affairs officer)

box 1, folder 15

Stetson, Ellen R.: transcript 1, showing editing by ROHO and Stetson. (Lieutenant, UC police department)

box 1, folder 16

Stetson, Ellen R.: transcript 2, edited and retyped by Stetson.

box 2, folder 1

Travers, B. Thomas (Veteran assistant vice-chancellor for undergraduate affairs)

box 2, folder 2

Woods, Michele (Director, student activities and services)

box 2, folder 3

Wright, Ronald W. (Vice-chancellor, business and administrative services

 

MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS

box 2, folder 4

Supporting documents.

box 2, folder 5

Ephemera, leaflets, news accounts.

 

CASSETTE TAPES OF INTERVIEWS

box 3, folder 1-2

Bowles, Derry

box 3, folder 3-4

Cummins, John

box 3, folder 5-6

Foley, William

box 3, folder 7-8

Hafner, Richard P.

box 3, folder 9-10

Hayashi, Patrick

box 3, folder 11

Heyman, Ira Michael

box 3, folder 12-14

Jacobs, Mary F.

box 3, folder 15-16

Johnson, Joseph

box 3, folder 17-18

Laetsch, Watson M.

box 3, folder 19-20

Park, Roderic B.

box 3, folder 21-22

Reynolds, Hal

box 3, folder 23-24

Smith, Michael R.

box 3, folder 25-26

Stetson, Ellen R.

box 3, folder 27

Travers, B. Thomas

box 3, folder 28

Woods, Michele

box 3, folder 29

Wright, Ronald W.