Word: berkeley
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Peace Pigs. To cope with the dramatically different campus of today, university police chiefs try to weed out authoritarian types among their men who may provoke more trouble than they control. Berkeley's top cop, William Beall, frankly admits that he looks for "Peace Corps" types who can assure the students that "we are less likely to escalate the situation." And Don Schwartzmiller, security chief of Kent State's force, makes sure he knows what his officers will do "if they're called pigs by youngsters who mean it." Says Schwartzmiller: "Their reactions have to be under...
Washington was only the temporary focus of an uprising that touched every part of the U.S., from Bowdoin College in Maine to the University of Miami, from the now familiar volatility of such campuses as Harvard and Berkeley, to more conservative enclaves. At the University of Nebraska in the heart of "Nixon country," students occupied the ROTC headquarters. The University of Arizona, like many other U.S. campuses, had its first taste ever of student activism. Manhattan's Finch College, Tricia Nixon's alma mater, went on strike. At California's Whittier College, 30% of the student body angrily protested...
...Even at Berkeley, which had witnessed three weeks of promiscuous "trashing" (random destruction) and cop-baiting, students rallied behind a faculty-student committee intent on raising protest above rampage and turning the vast resources of the university against the war. At a rally of 15,000 in the university's Hearst Greek Theater, talk of militance and confrontation was booed. Chicago Seven Defendant Tom Hayden turned up and tried to blend the war, the Black Panthers and the Kent State murders into one rhetorical attack on the U.S. His audience was not moved. Berkeley Law Professor Frank Newman received more...
...Berkeley crowd enthusiastically applauded U.C.L.A. Law Professor Michael Tigar when he said: "We must confront the President and force him to withdraw from Viet Nam and leave the people there to determine their own fate. In the course of history, genocide and imperialism will be stopped. We have to decide whether you and I will liberate this country from the inside or whether it will be liberated from abroad." More than ever, there was a feeling among the dissidents that they formed a coherent bloc capable of exercising political muscle...
Whatever Young's decision, it will have repercussions beyond U.C.L.A. Firing Angela Davis may well trigger trouble at some of U.C.'s more combustible campuses such as Berkeley and Santa Barbara. Keeping her may well cause a backlash in the June primary election, when California voters will be asked to approve a $246 million bond issue for a badly needed health sciences complex at U.C.L.A. "I like my job," says Chancellor Young, who gets $41,000 a year. "I can't think of anything I'd rather do." But unless he finds a way to please...