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...Berg became politicized at another campus--he joined his first political demonstration in 1963 at the University of Wisconsin. He came to Harvard a year later and joined...
After his release from prison, Berg drove a laundry truck and worked as a clerk until, three years later, Harvard readmitted him to finish his dissertation. Though the University had dismissed him, he returned to the Yard to work with SDS in organizing students, attempting especially to draw attention to what he saw as sexism and racism in Harvard's employment practices...
...John C. Berg was one of the less fortunate protesters in the April 1969 University Hall takeover. For "forcibly ejecting" a dean out the door--"I held his arm," Berg recalls--he not only faced the Committee of Fifteen but also landed in a Boston court. In December 1969, the Government graduate student was indicted and convicted of assault and battery and spent nine months in the Middlesex House of Correction...
...time of the University Hall bust, he recalls, he knew he did not want to give any legitimacy to the Committee of Fifteen's proceedings by attending his own hearing. Besides disapproving of the particular practices of the committee, Berg felt that its purpose--to determine who was guilty and who wasn't--showed that University administrators had missed the whole point of the collective political action on campus in those years...
Hearing that undergraduates are considering breaking the boycott of CRR, Berg shakes his head sadly. Just that day at Suffolk University in Boston, where Berg teaches, the faculty had voted to establish ROTC on campus, despite vociferous dissent from him and a few others. "There's a change going on," he says...