Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...father was a Communist" and "turned all her prejudices on me." At Cal, she has repeatedly marched, protested and demonstrated, getting arrested twice. She was a top leader of last year's Free Speech Movement, which, in the memorable words of Student Leader Mario Savio,* forced education at Berkeley to "grind to a halt." The movement foundered last spring after some of its members shouted obscenities, insisting that this was free speech. Bettina succeeded to the eleven-member board that runs F.S.M.'s muchdiminished reincarnation, the Free Student Union...
...result of such single-minded devotion to protest, Bettina has acquired an effective political following of campus left-wingers and others who see her as a symbol of rebellion. Last week their votes were enough to win her a place on the student-faculty rules advisory committee that Berkeley's new chancellor, Roger W. Heyns, counts on to be a key force in his effort to stabilize the school. Under the complicated Cambridge Preferential Voting System, Bettina topped the list of nine contestants for the three undergraduate seats on the committee-in an election that drew only...
Open Forum. Heyns has made it his business since he went to Berkeley from Michigan last August to defuse the kind of political explosions that Aptheker & Co. cherish. His specific concern is the hundred or so students, plus many nonstudents drawn by Berkeley's reputation as a swinging place for protest, who make and dominate the chaos. Heyns aims, by "controlling time, place and manner," to "assimilate political activity into the normal life of the university"-that is, play it down and play up academic effort...
Heyns clearly is seeking to channel the radicalism of Berkeley's students into avenues of social protest within the framework of established U.S. institutions. Bettina Aptheker, who candidly puts her faith in revolution, of course resists the channeling-although an irony of her position is that many Berkeley "New Left" students think Communism anachronistic. She has to keep explaining that her party is "in the forefront of social advances," and that other left-wing movements tend to be "too left-so left they're absurd...
Heyns has had a free hand from the regents, and University of California President Clark Kerr says that the state of Berkeley "is a good deal better than it was a year ago." Says the Los Angeles Times: "Heyns appears to have given Berkeley the leadership it needs to take the first steps toward solutions...