Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some schools a concern for racial problems has affected blacks' attitudes toward athletics. At Berkeley a basketball player refused to cut his "Afro,"--long hair--and, in support, some other players quit the team...
Harvard's track team has qualified nine men to participate in the outdoor National Collegiate Track Championships next month at Berkeley...
...stoned--it would have been almost crass to light up in public. By and large, however, the police seemed to be breaking in a new summer approach. They were being friendly. News must have reached them that the word was out in hippy havens across the country that when Berkeley dies Boston will come alive...
Surprisingly, S.D.S. at the University of Iowa is stronger than at Berkeley, where the local chapter is lost in a welter of radical campus groups. To raise funds, says Graduate Student Leonard Goldberg, 22, Berkeley's S.D.S. is often reduced to "throwing a party, charging a dollar a head and serving cheap beer." Money is a problem almost everywhere. The national S.D.S. owes the Federal Government $10,000 in back taxes. Receiving little money from headquarters, Columbia Graduate John Fuerst, 23, hitchhikes around the country as one of S.D.S.'s eight at-large national officers. Fuerst...
What draws young people into S.D.S., says Berkeley Sophomore Peter Stone, 20, is a desire to translate their sense of alienation from society into "a political thing." Products of comfortable, middle-class homes, S.D.S. members typically are disenchanted young liberals. Most feel that anti-Communism is an irrelevant stance. Probably no more than 2% of all S.D.S.-ers belong to the Communist Party. Princeton Sophomore James Tarlau, 20, who was president of his high school student council in Manhattan, once worked for Democratic Representative William Fitts Ryan, eventually turned to S.D.S. after becoming appalled by congressional support for the Viet...