Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beyond a doubt include Mario Savio. Born in New York city, Savio glided through high school at the top of a class of 1,200, spent two years in local colleges shopping for majors, then moved with his Sicilian-'immigrant parents to California and entered the university at Berkeley Soon was "disenchanted." He "drifted" into the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ("Snick") and last summer joined a Freedom School in McComb, Miss., to teach Negroes poetry history, math and genetics-"a good subject to show how black and white people are the same...
...effective until approved by the university's board of regents; the only clue to their probable attitude is Chairman Edward Carters concerned reference to "extraordinary problems created by recent incidents." But to turn it down now means risking more than further protest from Savio and F.S.M.: the Berkeley faculty which voted 824 to 115 for its proposed solution, cannot lightly be overridden. Moreover, the proposal is not out of line with practice at other U.S. universities which have come a long way greater freedom of expression since day in 1952 when Senator Robert Taft had to stand outside...
...gave at Thursday's RGA meeting (Friday, Dec. 11); and I think the matter important enough to warrant correction. For one thing, I was quoted out of context, in such a way as to distort my opinion out of recognition. I did remark that the action of the Berkeley Administration had been characterized by ineptitude and stupidity, but I referred, not to their position on the issues, but rather to their tactical handling of the dispute...
...other; that up to this year it has performed this balancing act with some skill and has managed, by providing the safety valve of the Bancroft strip, to accxodate the needs of an increasingly active body of students and nonstudent hangers-on; and that the growing attraction of the Berkeley campus for militants and activists of all shades was proof that freedom was not being stifled. I want to make these poins now, not only because no one likes to be misunderstood, but because the Administration of the University of California has been the butt of far more criticism than...
...aggravated the difficulty and represents a serious breach in the jealously protected autonomy of the University from outside or sectarian influences; (5) that the force and outside pressure in this case may well set a precedent for similar action to far more dubious ends; (6) that in short, the Berkeley revolt represents the most serious assault on academic freedom in America since the McCarthy...