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What McIntosh thinks Berkeley "really needs" is a student "political activities committee" that would work with a similar faculty committee "to review and rewrite all university rules regarding political activity." As McIntosh sees it, the faculty committee would set up "guiding principles and policies" which would then be worked into more specific rules by the student committee...
...organization on this campus that actually has some status, there's going to be trouble," McIntosh told the faculty last month. "The administration can continue to claim that they discipline justly and that existing rules are not ex cathedra but were actually written by students. But as long as Berkeley students have no access to rule-making, we have a legitimate complaint...
...People like Mario and Karen are so well-liked that most strikers might actually feel guilty if they thought the issue of non-students was really being ignored," vanLobensels said. "Mario, especially, is really a 'living monument,' like the newspapers say. But those of us who've been around Berkeley a long time realize why Mario and Karen are non-students. The reason is that the rules are made by distant and sometimes arbitrary figures in Sproul Hall, and administered by those same people. When a student -- like Karen -- is cited once for breaking a rule, one of the little...
Heyns, who wrote a PhD. thesis on the "Effects of Variations in Leadership on Participation Behavior in Discussion Groups," can explain the turmoil at Berkeley in sociological terms. "I know what they're after," he told a press conference. "Eventually they'll get around to talking about a student court. But I've seen such a thing in operation at other schools and, let me tell you, it can be disastrous. Students can blithely hand down judgments on their peers that even the harshest faculty committee would consider outrageous...
Heyns admits that non-students at Berkeley are really not solely responsible for the agitation there, as California newspapers claim and Californians believe. "Unfortunately, they are aided and abetted by some of our own students who share this hostility toward the university," Heyns explains. "It is apparent that we have lost some of the ground we had gained in our efforts over the past two years to build a genuine campus community. I understand that there were some weaknesses in the Campus Rules Committee, but I think this joint commission can discuss all the reasons for this development...