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On to Greatness. Despite his rapport with students, Young is far from being a pliant tool of protesters. During one heated, profanity-filled meeting with some student rebels, he suddenly snapped: "I don't have to listen to that kind of language" and walked out. Quick in temper, Young is also quick to clamp down on undergraduate activities that go too far. After a fraternity held a party that barred Negroes and Mexican Americans, Young suspended it from the campus. In the face of a massive student revolt, he says, "I wouldn't hesitate a moment to call in the police."
Franklin Murphy turned a mediocre university into a very good one; "Chuck" Young wants to move ahead to greatness. He thinks that U.C.L.A.'s faculty is "first-rate," but suggests that it might function better if staffed by specialists: some to teach, the others to carry out research. He also shares Murphy's conviction that the university should be the intellectual servant of its community. This fall, he has instigated a university-financed project that will sponsor ghetto seminars in police-community relations, form block organizations and present both news and songs from a mobile bus.