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17-763: The conference was organized through the University of California Extension Programs. The advisory committee consisted of Thomas Parkinson , Professor of English at U.C. Berkeley, Donald M. Allen , West Coast Editor of Grove Press , Robert Duncan , Poet, and Richard Baker , Program Coordinator. The roster of scheduled poets consisted of: Robin Blaser , Robert Creeley , Richard Duerden , Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg , Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Joanne Kyger , Ron Loewinsohn , Charles Olson , Gary Snyder , Jack Spicer , George Stanley , Lew Welch , and John Wieners . Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka) did not participate; Ed Dorn

34-621: A former student who sought to "get someone who was associated with Communism ." Parkinson's early life was affected by the Great Depression and the Second World War . He grew up in San Francisco; his father was a master-plumber union leader who was blacklisted during the general strike of the late 1930s. He attended Lowell High School and a junior college. When World War II began, Parkinson enlisted in

51-461: A thousand copies of The Daily Californian after it endorsed his opponent, then-Mayor Shirley Dean . In May 2003, nearly 5,000 papers were stolen by students protesting coverage of the arrest of a Cal football player. The largest act of theft took place in November 1996 when the paper's senior editorial board endorsed Proposition 209 . Nearly 23,000 papers were stolen on Election Day 1996, and in

68-565: Is too bizarre." Thomas Parkinson Thomas F. Parkinson (1920–1992) was an American poet and Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley . He specialized in the poetry of W. B. Yeats ; and was one of the first academics to write about the Beat poets and novelists of San Francisco in the 1950s and 1960s. Parkinson was also a political activist for much of his life and survived an assassination attempt in 1961 by

85-489: The Daily Cal with this fake headline had been strewn about campus in the wee hours. This was in fact a hoax perpetrated by aggrieved Stanford fans. The Daily Californian has a history of publishing spirited editorials, and in some cases, editions containing controversial editorials have been subjected to newspaper theft . In 2002, Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates agreed to pay restitution after admitting to having thrown away

102-483: The 1950s, Parkinson became involved in political activism. He was involved in KPFA-radio Berkeley when it was a free-form West Coast anarchist collective. Parkinson made a number of public statements criticizing the lack of funding for student scholarships, including those for women students. Parkinson testified at the 1957 obscenity trial of Allen Ginsberg 's poem Howl in support of Ginsberg and

119-505: The Army , but was eventually discharged due to his height. In the years that followed, Parkinson worked a variety of jobs, including as an insurance agent, a ship's outfitter, and a lumberjack. He eventually returned to the Bay Area to study at UC Berkeley, where he completed his bachelor's degree. Parkinson received his master's degree and doctorate from UC Berkeley. While at Berkeley in

136-584: The beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in California , however, The Daily Californian has been publishing a print newspaper once a week on Thursdays. The Daily Californian became independent from UC Berkeley in 1971 after the campus administration fired three senior editors over an editorial that encouraged readers to "take back" People's Park . Both sides came to an agreement, and The Daily Californian gained financial and editorial independence from

153-647: The country to create similar sex columns. On October 16, 2006, the Daily Cal launched its first blog, The Daily Clog, a student-life blog that accumulates various tidbits about Berkeley and college life. On August 25, 2008, the Daily Cal announced that it would no longer print a paper version of the newspaper on Wednesdays amidst a decline in advertising revenues and higher newspaper costs. Many former Daily Cal staffers have joined The Daily Californian Alumni Association (DCAA) since its resurrection in August 1996. A unit of The Daily Californian Education Foundation,

170-488: The following days, copies of the paper were tossed off the balcony of the newspaper's office and burned in effigy. As a way to repair relations with campus community members angered by the publication of the editorial endorsing Proposition 209 , editors at the Daily Cal established the nation's first regular college newspaper sex column . The column, now known colloquially as "Sex on Tuesday", led to college papers across

187-563: The poem. A former Berkeley student with serious mental illness named John Harrison Farmer compiled an assassination list of professors and other individuals on the campus he suspected of being communists or being part of the "liberal movement." Farmer included Parkinson on the list due to statements he made in his courses and an article he published in campus newspaper, The Daily Californian . On January 18, 1961, Farmer entered Parkinson's office in Dwinelle Hall where Parkinson

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204-634: The university and is now published by an independent corporation called the Independent Berkeley Students Publishing Company, Inc. The paper licenses its name from the Regents of the University of California . On November 24, 1982, three days after the November 20th Big Game (now known for The Play ), early morning readers of the Daily Cal were chagrined to find in the headline of the front page: "NCAA Awards Big Game to Stanford." Hundreds of copies of

221-405: Was a collection of essays. The Daily Californian The Daily Californian ( Daily Cal ) is an independent, student-run newspaper that serves the University of California, Berkeley , campus and its surrounding community. It formerly published a print edition four days a week on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday during the academic year, and twice a week during the summer. Since

238-534: Was also one of the first academic critics to promote the works of Beat writers like Allen Ginsberg , as well as writers John Montague and Robert Duncan . He published his Casebook on the Beats in 1961. He became part of the circle of writers, including Lawrence Ferlinghetti , that helped evolve the San Francisco literary culture of the 1960s. He also published on the correspondence of Hart Crane and Yvor Winters . His last book, Poets, Poems, Movements (1987),

255-606: Was committed to a mental hospital. After the murder attempt, Parkinson continued to promote liberal causes, served as campus Ombudsman , and chaired the Berkeley chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) . Parkinson died of a heart attack on January 15, 1992, at the age of 71. Parkinson published W. B. Yeats, Self-Critic in 1961 and W. B. Yeats, The Later Poetry in 1964, which established him as an authority on Yeats. Parkinson

272-414: Was meeting with 19 year old graduate student and teaching assistant Stephen M. Thomas. Farmer shot both Parkinson and Thomas. Thomas was killed, though Parkinson survived with serious injuries; several of his vertebrae were fused and his face permanently disfigured. Farmer later admitted his target list included other notable Berkeley professors such as Richard Drinnon . Farmer was found to be insane and

289-577: Was pressed into service. There was a reading by David Bromige , David Schaff, James Koller and Ken Irby, but the tape has been lost. Among the younger poets who attended the conference but did not perform were Maria Damon , Ron Silliman , Anne Waldman , and Lewis Warsh . Louis Simpson cited the conference when he resigned his position at Berkeley. During this event, Charles Olson was designated President of Poets, and Allen Ginsberg, Secretary of State of Poetry. Robert Creeley remarked, "There will never be another poetry conference in Berkeley; Berkeley

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