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After the interlude, articles about present student leftists seems relatively tame. "This Berkeley stuff, I just don't get it," Roger observed. "For a while I was hopeful of a good juicy drug scare, but that seemed...
...here,"--he pointed to the crumpled copy of Esquire--"this is how students really live. For instance, I know that in the summer you date girls like this." He pointed to pictures of four "townies" who, according to the article, "often date Berkeley men." One was a secretary at Warner Brothers, one a model...
...Bankrupt. Heyns undertook the Berkeley job at no financial loss: his $35,000 salary is about what he earned at Michigan. "Let's get one thing straight," he told reporters. "I don't regard the University of California as some kind of bankrupt organization that needs some knight in shining armor from the East to come in as a kind of domestic peace corps. I think Berkeley is a little chagrined and would like to settle down and get back to work...
While Cal was welcoming Heyns, some of the looser ends of last winter's disorder were being tied up in Berkeley municipal court, where Judge Rupert Crittenden was passing out jail sentences of up to 90 days, most of them suspended, and fines ranging from $50 to $300 to some 754 convicted campus rebels. Nearly half of them informed Crittenden that they would not accept a probationary condition that he also imposed: to refrain from any more illegal demonstrations for up to two years. The judge responded with tougher sentences, generally the option of paying higher fines or going...
...students, of course, thought the sentences much too severe. At week's end, nearly 600 agitators gathered on the campus and then marched through Berkeley to rally outside Crittenden's courtroom. They sang We Shall Over come, heard Cal professors criticize U.S. policy in Viet Nam and Savio complain about U.S. justice. Also on hand was Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg, who clanged a pair of tiny cymbals and mumbled an unintelligible, prayerlike chant. What was he trying to say? "That was a magic formula to soothe and calm the heart of the judge," Ginsberg explained...