Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When asked whether a Harvard organization of teaching fellows could be as militant as the one at Berkeley, she replied, "I sure hope so. But let's not talk about strikes now. They require lots of support and teachers don't like to strike...
...first demand attracted the most widespread support. It was that state and city police be barred from interfering in "on-campus" political affairs. The Berkeley administration has twice called in outside police -- last week and two years ago -- and in both instances it seems fair to say the action was ill-advised. Had the police not been summoned last week, there would probably have been no strike...
...students on strike at Berkeley have had real cause to be angry. The campus rules committee -- a major accomplishment of the Free Speech Movement two years ago -- had by last spring become effectively dominated by its faculty majority, and still the administration felt free to ignore it. Instances of attempted intimidation of students -- usually threatened suspension -- have been frequent. Generally the administration has moved to tighten the reins on its opponents when a means has been available...
...second demand of the Berkeley strikers calls for the university to drop charges against those arrested last week and to refrain from taking disciplinary action against any of the students involved. Even if the university were prepared to ask that charges be dropped, the Alameda County District Attorney's office would ignore the request, so that part of the second demand is impracticable and irrelevant. But for the Berkeley administration to compound the situation with discipline of its own would be to treat the strikers as criminals. No step would be more sure to stall a solution to the present...
...short, the demands of the striking students -- even if they seem uncollected and in a few instances unspecific-- are geared to reverse some of the undesirable trends of the past two years. The Berkeley administration has been simultaneously pretending a desire to work with its student opponents and finding ways to subtly restrict them. Now those students are mounting a defense...