Word: sather
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans, Chinese Americans and other racial minorities, extended their strike for an autonomous college of ethnic studies into a third week. Though the university has not been seriously disrupted by the strikers so far, the daily campus demonstrations mounted to new violence last week as police battled students near Sather Gate. Thirty-five people were arrested on charges of obstructing a public thoroughfare, bringing the total number of arrests made during the strike to 75. With T.W.L.F. leaders committed to accepting no compromise, no immediate end to the dispute was in prospect...
...Battered Police Car. In the end, 814 were arrested, and it all grew out of a plot of campus property 26 ft. wide and 60 ft. long outside the Sather Gate entrance to the campus. That was the traditional spot where students recruited funds and followers for off-campus activities such as civil rights demonstrations and political campaigns. When school opened Sept. 21, the university barred any more solicitations, in part because of complaints from politicians that university property was being used by partisan groups in the presidential campaign. Thousands of students responded by staging a protest that trapped...
...prime feature of Berkeley is its size and diversity. Students from the 50 states and 97 foreign countries throng through Sather Gate every morning not only with tans but with beards, sandals, and briefcases. Combined with the academic strength of one of the country's ablest faculties are vast athletic and recreational facilities...
...outside the president's office won students the right to argue their demand for integration of 150 university-owned apartment houses. At Swarthmore, students from 57 campuses spent the weekend in disarmament seminars. And at the University of California in Berkeley, rallies, demonstrations and caucuses boiled incessantly outside Sather Gate, a casbah for political activists...
...formed a group to invite agnostic, anticlerical speakers to the campus. At Northwestern, student funds are being spent on a big scale to bring advocates of all causes into college forums. With a sense of moral purpose, students have adopted countless ideological orphans. "In a week of passing through Sather Gate," says Berkeley's Political Science Professor Eugene (The Ugly American) Burdick, "I must pick up 100 pieces of literature urging me to do things like send textbooks to the Philippines or get a fallout-shelter booklet and send it back to Kennedy...