Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks ago, KPFA in Berkeley, Calif., brought university students, par ents, police and faculty together for a straightforward confrontation. Los Angeles' KPFK scheduled a documentary of Sunset Strip teeny-boppers and this week will begin broadcasts from an all-black satellite station in Watts. On his morning wake-up show, Larry Josephson of WBAI in New York is likely to tell his listeners that "it's an awful day" and suggest that they "turn me off, for get about work and go back...
Among the projects of local CCAS chapters, the Harvard CCAS chapter sent four representatives to the Chinese embassy in Paris to present a position paper "criticizing U.S. China policy and the scholarship which supports it"; Berkeley CCAS is preparing an Asian Studies curriculum for an autonomous Third World College; and the Yale chapter held a conference on teaching Asian Studies in high schools...
...will choose us, whether we are aware of it or not." William Hinton, author of Fanshen, a book about agricultural reform in revolutionary China, told a receptive audience, "We will not survive unless we have a strong revolutionary movement." Orville Schell, a newly elected co-ordinator of CCAS from Berkeley, told the press that the group came together in an "attempt to wed scholarship with politics and action...
...Consciousness-Expanding Drug, edited by David Solomon (G. P. Putnam's-Berkeley Medallion Edition, paperback, 1967, 248 pp.). This collection of essays and articles pro and con has a slim amount of factual information, and some interesting speculations about LSD. Included are reports of LSD experiments with terminal cancer patients, alcoholics, and the "mentally ill," as well as articles by Aldous Huxley, Alan Watts, William Burroughs, Leary, and other journalists of psychedelia...
Notre Dame, whose comparatively docile students bear little resemblance to the activists at Berkeley or Columbia, has suffered only modest demonstrations. The one that aroused Father Hesburgh occurred last November, when students held a lie-in in front of the administration building to prevent students from attending interviews with a CIA recruiter. Hesburgh denounced the lie-in as "clearly tyranny," said in his letter that Notre Dame could not tolerate "anyone or any group that substitutes force for rational persuasion," warned that angry reaction to campus violence from legislators might suppress the liberty of universities and "may well lead...