Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First to speak was Arthur MacEwan, former president of the University of Chicago student body, who summarized the history of the Berkeley conflict...
Stanley L. Cavell, Walter M. Cabot Associate Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, formerly a member of the Berkeley faculty, declared that the University had "under-estimated the character of the students involved. They underestimated both their moral and intellectual courage," he added...
Cavell, who noted that Berkeley had a "long history of grievances between the Administration and either its faculty or its students," said he was sure that friends of his "are fighting the good fight...
Reports in the Eastern press have tended to treat the riots at the Berkeley Campus of the University of California as one more example of undergraduate hooliganism. But the fact that most of the students, 800 members of the faculty, and the local chapter of the American Association of University Professors blame the University administration for causing the riots suggests that something more important is at stake...
...controversy centered over an area of the campus that had traditionally been set aside for fund-raising and political speeches. When the ban on political activities was issued, the whole spectrum of Berkeley's political make-up, from Goldwaterites to Socialists, rallied together, and on Sept. 30 several groups set up fundraising tables in the area. That night Chanceilor Edward W. Strong announced the "indefinite suspension" of eight students who had taken part in the civil disobedience. The following day, when University police tried to arrest one of the protesters, hundreds of students sat down on all sides...