Word: berkeley
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...explanation for this lack of interest may be the geographical diversity of the Harvard student body. Ninety-five per cent of the students at UC Berkeley, which is a state-run university, are from California, and a large part of these are from the Berkeley area itself. Students there have an immediate stake in local politics...
Those who elected the radicals to the Berkeley City Council had a vision. "What we want is more room to build a revolutionary society," said one student, "a society with more equitable tax distribution, with stricter rent controls, with new low-cost housing, with more parks and child-care centers." Yet, two-and-a-half years after the initiation of the radical experiment, the vision is gone. Berkeley remains the same. And so does Cambridge. Here the vision extends no further than a reading cubicle in Lamont Library
...April 1971, the students and residents of Berkeley, California elected three radicals to their city council, over the oohs of apprehensive conservatives and the ahs of the national press. It was "an experiment in take-over for a Red sanctuary within the USA," one Louisiana congressman informed his colleagues. The headline in U.S. News and World Reports was less pessimistic: it said, "Radicals use the system--and find that it works!" The story beneath this pronouncement speculated on the election's significance for other communities with large student populations. It mentioned Madison, Wisc. and Cambridge, Mass. as particularly inviting targets...
...political atmosphere was far different at Berkeley, where student demonstrations for the establishment of a People's Park resulted in the National Guard's being called in for a 17-day period in 1969. One year later, a coalition of students (and the street people and radical intellectuals found in most students towns), blacks (Berkeley is about a third black), and white leftists (Berkeley has a fair number of old leftists, many of whom spent the sixties working for the American Civil Liberties Union or the local Pacifica radio station and came back out of the closet and into...
They put together the April Coalition, a diverse group of leftist candidates united in support of an initiative to split Berkeley's police force into three community-controlled segments--one for student residential areas, one for black residential areas, and one for the areas dominated by the white, non-student and generally professional people who inhabit most of the rest of the city...