Word: savio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mario Savio, a leader or Berkeley's Free Speech Movement, last night accused University of California President Clark Kerr of being an "able practitioner of managerial tyranny," who was seeking to make Berkeley a "knowledge factory...
...Savio told an audience of more than 300 people at Lowell Lecture Hall that the current controversy over political freedom at Berkeley was an outgrowth of Kerr's "worldly view" of the University...
Citing Kerr's book, Uses of the University, Savio asserted that the University President views students as the "raw material" who are fed into the knowledge factory, "where all the rough edges are taken off and smooth, slick products come...
...concession was probably sweeping enough to have ended student protests, although undergraduates protested that as individuals they should be free to organize politically and risk arrest without the added jeopardy of university punishment. But the university promptly reopened the dispute by threatening to discipline four student leaders, including Savio, who had organized the demonstration around the police car. Shouted Savio: "This factory does unjust things, and we'll have to cause the wheels to grind to a halt." Then he led the investment of Sproul Hall...
...Within hours, the intransigent undergraduates, since October organized in a self-styled Free Speech Movement dominated by civil rights militants, Trotskyite groups, and members of a Communist front, called a strike on the 27,500-student campus at Berkeley. "We have promised that this university shall not run," said Savio, "and we shall keep that promise." One-third of the Berkeley faculty signed a telegram to Kerr and Strong urging amnesty for the four students who face punishment, and 5,000 students staged a rally outside Sproul Hall to hear speeches, strike appeals, and a final folk song in Portuguese...