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...There was an enormous snowballing effect of campuses following after other campuses," says Andor Skotnes, an undergraduate at the University of California at Berkeley during 1969 and now a historian at Columbia University...
...Berkeley, for example, traced its protests back to 1963. The administration there had been faced with "almost eight years of dealing with unbroken confrontation," by the time of the massive anti-Vietnam war protests in 1970, says Skotnes...
...Berkeley fight was over People's Park--a university-owned lot which had been taken over by the community and which the administration wanted to take back for use as a parking...
...says, "By April, 1970, the demonstrations became more and more crazy, and there was a powerful sense of apocalypse at Berkeley...
...very, very frightening time," Skotnes says of the the spring of 1970 when there was a student strike at Berkeley. "It was a direct result of Nixon's invading Cambodia and the Kent State [conflict]," where four students were shot and killed by the National Guard during an anti-war demonstration...