Word: savio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...note passed from hand to hand among the spectators in Berkeley municipal court advised everyone to "rise silently when Mario comes in." A lot of them did-though silence was a curious tribute to pay Mario Savio, 23, noisiest voice of the Free Speech Movement that raised such a commotion for two years at the University of California. Savio earned himself a 120-day jail sentence from the Berkeley court for trespassing, resisting arrest and refusal to disperse, fought the rap unsuccessfully for two years through higher courts (the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review it), and last week marched...
...more than a dozen universities and colleges adopted a lengthy manifesto attacking the quality of American life and the direction of U.S. foreign policy. Besides S.D.S., the New Left includes other small groups, largely consisting of individuals with a surrounding cluster of followers. There is, of course, Mario Savio, of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, but his stature has faded along with the issue. The more stable heroes in the New Left's pantheon are Staughton Lynd, 38, a pacifist and professor of American history at Yale between speaking engagements, and Tom Hayden, 27, an S.D.S. founder...
VanLobensels and McIntosh feel that if the rules were made "visible" and some "clear form" of judicial review for student violators were set up, the non-students who are former students -- like Savio and Mrs. Lieberman -- might actually be pacified. The administration, too, which has refused to readmit both these notorious "non-students" might come to see that "the situation is no longer explosive. They'd see that it would be in their interest to readmit both of them," McIntosh says...
...students on the strike committee (which is still operative) have a vision, and Mrs. Lieberman's predictions of a revolutionary stirring are typical. At the final strike rally, Savio told the strikers that "we're going to give this administration trouble until students really run this university...
...literature that emanates from Savio's run-down apartment a few blocks from the campus -- toward the seedier part of Berkeley -- there is a real revolutionary tone. One leaflet circulated during the strike demanded that students be given...