Word: savio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demands, but the students are unlikely to get anywhere until they dissociate themselves from the so-called non-students on campus. The most sympathetic faculty members cannot countenance the presence of these "agitators" in campos organizations; other adult Californians refuse to believe that people like Mrs. Lieberman and Mario Savio, a leader in the 1964 Free Speech Movement, have any right at all to set foot on Sproul Plaza...
Most students, in fact, have forgotten that Savio at that time denounced the student government as "the sandbox" and pointed to the ASUC president as a helpless and forgotten figure on the sidelines. Today, president Dan McIntosh is the chief arbiter between the administration and the strikers...
McIntosh admits that he feels uneasy about the proposed commission. "It really wouldn't give us what we need," he explains. "Savio has a point when he says that they can let us serve on millions of joint committees and it won't mean a thing until we have at least a fragment of autonomy...
...young no longer feel that they are merely preparing for life; they are living it. "Black Power now!" cries Stokely Carmichael. "Action now!" demands Mario Savio. "Drop out now!" urges Timothy Leary. As Buell Gallagher, president of the City College of New York, sees it: "This generation has no Utopia. Its idea is the Happening. Let it be concrete, let it be vivid, let it be personal. Let it be now!" With its sense of immediacy, the Now Generation couples a sense of values that is curiously compelling. It esteems inventiveness, eloquence, honesty, elegance and good looks-all qualities personified...
...Mario Savio, not for being a demonstrating beatnik, but for putting Berkeley...