Chancellor, 1980-1990, Vice Chancellor, and professor of law, UC Berkeley, and secretary, the Smithsonian Institution, 1994-1999

Alternate Titles

• University history series.

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Childhood in Manhattan, Dartmouth College, A.B., Yale Law School, J.D. 1956; legislative assistant to Senator Irving Ives, 1950-1951; chief law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, 1958-1959; Marine Corps and Reserve, 1953-1958; marriage to Therese Thau; UC Berkeley: professor of law and of city and regional planning, 1959-, land use planning and environmental law; Vice Chancellor, 1974-1980, and Chancellor, 1980-1990: admissions, affirmative action, apartheid and divestiture, Free Speech Movement, HUAC; student housing, campus ceremonies; NCAA policies; discusses law practice, arbitration, land use and environmental law; city-campus relations, People's Park, faculty committees, undergrad teaching, faculty quality, fiscal stringency, VERIP (voluntary early retirement incentive program); reorganization of biochemistry; private resources, Keeping the Promise fundraising campaign; reflections on weapons-related laboratories; heading Bay Vision 2020; Department of Interior, deputy assistant secretary for policy, 1993-1994; Secretary, the Smithsonian Institution, 1994-1999. copies of speeches, clippings, biographical information on Heyman and his wife.

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• Interviews