Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With Savio's emergence as chief spokesman for the FSM, two schools of thought have developed to account for him. To his friends--and there are many--he is a brave and honest spokesman who seeks simply to extend First Amendment freedoms to the Berkeley campus. To his enemies--and there are many--he is a party-line Marxist revolutionary, bent on destroying the University of California. The first view is inadequate; the second is simply wrong...
...Senate, and endorsed by the FSM, he would "put the FSM to sleep." There was no doubt that he meant it. "But if they turn us down, then just as this semester was wrecked, so will next semester be wrecked." Someone asked him if renewed fighting might not turn Berkeley into a fourth rate college with a fifth rate faculty. "We may be doing good if we get people not to go to the University of California," he said. "Two-thirds of the lectures I've heard there shouldn't ever have been given, they...
...This great university is not adequate to provide for the best among its students," he continued. "For the most spirited people here, Berkeley is a meaningless ritual." He said that there were thousands of students at Berkeley who didn't belong in college. For the rest, and Savio is one of them, the fight for free speech is also a fight for dignity. He tells of one FSM demonstrator who admitted that he didn't give a damn about the free speech issue; the student said he had joined the protests because, "I'm tired of being shat upon." This...
...talked it became clear that Savio is one of the biggest variables in the mess at Berkeley. After the Regents' meeting later this month, someone will have to formulate a response for the FSM. If the Regents accept the faculty proposal without reservation, then the FSM will almost surely go to sleep, as Savio promises. If they turn it down completely, the FSM will declare war on the administration, as Savio also promises. But both of these possibilities seem unlikely. The Regents represent the most conservative force with which Kerr has to contend. They are the most sensitive to charges...
...stumped," he says. The thought of a compromise is not appealing to him; "we will never compromise our rights," he says over and over. This idea, plus Savio's notion that the University of California wouldn't be a very great loss to anyone, may spell trouble ahead at Berkeley. Savio's mind is not at all made up, and the people around him will be crucial at this point. Hopefully, students and faculty members can impress upon him the idea that an honorable compromise can be reached--one which insures the right of free speech, but allows the Regents...