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one of the most poorly kept secrets in university of California history became officially public in Los Angeles today the board of regions formalized what they apparently decided to do some time ago. That is fire Angela Davis technically. However, the board is just not renewing her one

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year contract as acting assistant professor of philosophy at U. C. L. A. That contract expires this month. The final vote was 15 to 6 with the region's meeting behind closed doors as a committee of the whole. However, indications are the board had agreed informally to dump

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her at earlier meetings in san Francisco. Having been overruled once by the courts, the board declared its majority opinion was based not on MS. Davis Communist Party membership but her professional conduct. Angela Davis learned of the predicted move while speaking before a Los Angeles rally in

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support of three solid add prisoners accused of killing a guard. Specifically the region's conceded she did not appear to be using her classroom to indoctrinate students nor did her outside activities interfere with her teaching duties. The decision was based on what the board described as quote

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extravagant and inflammatory rhetoric in her public speeches including the reference to police as pigs. The board also said she made unsatisfactory progress towards her doctorate. MS. Davis declined comment. She was later quoted as saying she would take legal action but did not specify her non reappointment

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is seen as a victory for governor Reagan. Okay, let's start right up there. It was based holy on the wreck or on questions that were brought up by the ad hoc faculty committee with regard to her remarks center conduct in speaking around various campuses and it

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was believed that this was displayed an unprofessional conduct and it was on this basis. The region's voted should not be rehired. Does this report mean that she was fired because she didn't advocate And she was not fired? She was hired for one year that year is

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up June 30. Subsequently the department came in with the issue as to whether she should be rehired for another year and the regions have voted that she should not be rehired and I think you'll find in that report also That there is a mention that there

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are 52 unfilled positions now on the campus. I do too lack of budget for filling those and that to find some way to put her over above those others that she just did not warrant that kind of priority. Governor. Will she be allowed to lecture on

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campus? Well, now the matter of a guest lecture or being invited by a student group to come speak this of course is something that it's completely different. And then the present position of teaching, I think it's all in that statement that we have made it plain

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that the regions have said she is not to be a teaching officer of the university. Do you think Angela Davis will teach or lecture on campus this coming fall. Uh Well the only thing I have to go on is the vote taken actually in the mail

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ballot of the academic senate. And they asked the Senate to to provide her the facilities for actually teaching. I have asked the committee to find out how this may be done in a legal manner. And I hope to have a report back could well be teaching

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despite the region's ruling. I will, I have asked the committee to look into look into the mechanics of how this might be able to be done. I believe that the Angela Davis case decision today by the border regions is quite misleading for the people of California.

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The governor has gotten the board to say she cannot teach, but she still can lecture in effect. She's still going to be on the campuses. I think the people who think that she's being fired because she's a communist, actually, she's being fired because of off campus

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nonworking our speeches. She's had her federal constitutional rights violated. She's a 26 year old, bookish black girl, no threat to any of our traditional values. I think the governor is trying to turn the state into a stage of hysteria over very, very little. We should get

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back to the denial of funds for the university's budget. Another more fundamental matters