Inside IV: Honoring "UCSB's Most Dangerous Professor" Dick Flacks

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English - December 08, 2023 22:09 - 31 minutes - 20.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
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Dick Flacks has been blamed for sparking the civil unrest in Isla Vista in 1969, but the protests had started before he arrived at UC Santa Barbara to teach sociology. He did, however, have a reputation as a leftwing activist and was well known enough for then-CA governor Ronald Reagan to say UCSB hiring Dick at the time was like 'hiring a pyromaniac to work in a firecracker factory,' writes Nick Welsh in the Independent.

In this episode, you'll learn more about the storied career of Professor Flacks, in a conversation with investigative journalist Melinda Burns. Then, KCSB's Harry Lawton speaks with Dick and his wife, the late Mickey Flacks, about their lives of radical activism as well as some interesting history about KCSB-FM.

Dick is a monthly host of Inside Isla Vista and one of KCSB's longest-running programmers. His "Culture of Protest" weekly radio show has been on the air on KCSB for over 40 years.

Read more about DickFlacks and his legacy in this story in the SB Independent: https://www.independent.com/2006/05/11/ucsbs-most-dangerous-professor/