Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Berkeley's aging young agitators, it was a dreamlike revival of past hell raising. To Berkeley's recently confident administrators, it was a sickening replay of two-year-old nightmares. Cops swung clubs on campus. Angry students scratched and bit policemen, or defiantly lay prone. The perennial martyr, Non-Student Mario Savio, exhorted cheering students, some perched in trees, to stay out of class. Nearly 2,000 of them did, and Berkeley again seemed close to coming unhinged...
Searching for a trigger for a new tumult, activists lit on U.S. Navy recruiters manning tables inside the Berkeley student union. A nonstudent, anti-Viet Nam, anticonscription group called the Draft Information Committee set up a table next to the Navy recruiters. Campus police ordered it removed. A crowd appeared, including Savio and Communist Student Bettina Aptheker. A fist fight broke out between two students, which drew more spectators. Some set up picket lines around the Navy table, then sprawled on the floor when police said picketing inside was illegal...
...that Heyns, who flew back to the campus, promise never again to call police out to handle campus "political" problems, drop all charges against those arrested, accept an entirely new form of student government. Heyns, waiting for emotions to cool, made no promises, but blamed the agitation on outsiders. Berkeley, he said, "can resolve its own problems within its own community, in its own way, but has no protection from outside protests...
...note that the Crimson of December 5 suggests that I "advised the administration against making concessions to FSM," while I was a professor at Berkeley. This statement is a total and complete untruth. My general position on the matter which I stated on a number of occasions publicly at Academic Senate meetings and in one case at a talk to the Graduating Coordinating Committee of FSM was reported by the California Monthly as follows...
...sided with the so-called FSM minority of moderates which while agreeing with the objective of the FSM with respect to campus regulations did not believe that the cause required the use of civil disobedience on campus. I have argued that the cause of civil liberties on the Berkeley campus had made considerable progress in the years before the FSM by the regular tactics of normal campus politics, i.e., petitions, picketing, mass rallies, and participation in student council elections. I believe that the efforts to get the administration to drop the remaining objectionable regulations would have succeeded without the December...