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Exam Time. First-semester final exams are about to begin at Cal, and for now most students are willing to skip demonstrations and let Meyerson work out his own way of running the university. But the conflict is not settled. Student Leader Mario Savio questions "whether the regents are the proper people to be running the university," and his Free Speech Movement wants to "establish the availability of a revolutionary experience in education." Concessions so far, he says, do not permit "free speech with consequences, free speech which may lead to sit-ins and picket lines and other civil rights...
CHORAL: Carlo Mario Giulini masterfully melds the Philharmonia Orchestra, chorus and four soloists into an incandescent Verdi Requiem (Angel). Intricate but eloquent, the Symphony of Psalms is performed by the CBC Symphony and the Festival Singers of Toronto, spurred on by Igor Stravinsky (Columbia...
...students are restless," says University of California President Clark Kerr and he would beyond a doubt include Mario Savio. Born in New York city, Savio glided through high school at the top of a class of 1,200, spent two years in local colleges shopping for majors, then moved with his Sicilian-'immigrant parents to California and entered the university at Berkeley Soon was "disenchanted." He "drifted" into the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ("Snick") and last summer joined a Freedom School in McComb, Miss., to teach Negroes poetry history, math and genetics-"a good subject to show how black...
...astonished spectators, a campus policeman then grabbed Savio around the throat while another twisted his arm in a hammer lock. They dragged him away fighting, while a reporter thoughtfully held a microphone to his face. Minutes later, Savio was freed and when F.S.M. partisans yelled "We want Mario," he naturally had to be allowed to make his speech. It was really no speech at all, just a masterfully brief and low-keyed announcement of an F.S.M. rally...
...first thing that should be said about Mario Savio is that he is on the right side. In making its original ruling, the university infringed on an area of student civil liberties far outside the scope of its just power. It is the FSM position that Kerr, by enforcing the edict, was bowing to pressure from anti-civil rights forces in the state. And this seems to be borne out by the facts...