Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...offered to meet them later for more talk. Each time the Secretary tried to answer a question, he was shouted down. Irked by one heckler, he yelled: "You come up here-you seem to have all the answers." Finally giving up, he shouted: "When I was a student at Berkeley, I was both tougher and more courteous than you are today." While some students continued to hoot, others yelled for quiet. Cops formed a wedge to lead McNamara through the mob, then took him away through underground food tunnels. In his wake, scuffles broke out between his defenders and detractors...
...passion in civil rights protests has petered out partly because black-power advocates have forced white students out of their movements. At Berkeley, the Afro-American Student Union even boycotted a "black-power day" conference because some whites helped plan it. Considering the Negro's legal rights mainly established, students at nearly every large urban university-notably Chicago, N.Y.U., Pennsylvania, U.S.C., San Francisco State-are working in Negro neighborhoods on the less dramatic long-range task of helping Negroes exercise those rights. No less than one-tenth of the 88,000 students on the University of California...
Scheer's open appeal to Negroes and lower class whites probably alienated many Berkeley faculty members. "The Cal people didn't like me finding lawyers for Oakland winos and providing community services, like the old Tammany Hall," he says. "They said they couldn't vote for me because 'undesirables' were taking over my campaign. I figured my campaign wasn't enough of a glorious symbol for them...
...Scheer insists, "although everyone always assumes I did well because I had the faculty and all these fervent student leftists behind me." Actually one political scientist from Cal worked for him; the others, he says, were friends of Jeffrey Cohelan, the incumbent Democrat. Even the student leftists, including the Berkeley chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, opposed him. "They accused me of legimitizing the Democratic Party and ruining the left movement. I didn't care. But as it turned out, the 1000 kids who worked were mostly dormies and frat people...
Scheer claims his district is pretty typical of California and says what they did there can be done anyplace. "We had poor Negroes, bourgeois Negroes, fat cat whites in the hills, and the working class whites in Emoryville and Albany, outside Berkeley...