Word: savio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...straining to hear professors over the noise of the amplified strike pleas echoing through the campus, and being called obscene names by hippies when I tried to buy a sandwich at the cafeteria, I decided that this would be a nicer place to get an education if Mario Savio would stop bugging us. Has anybody thought of drafting...
...yielded on the military recruiting issue, decided that recruiters should either seek student sponsorship to operate in the student-run union building or work through the campus placement service like other employers. But he refused to deal with nonstudents at all, shunned any discussions in which Non-Student Mario Savio, who tends bar at a near-campus student hangout when not agitating on campus, would take part, if only as a silent observer...
...Mario Savio, who had been neatly isolated by Heyns, nevertheless claimed victory. Crying "student power," he contended that the regents could have taken reprisals, but were "too damn scared." Now, students and labor, symbolized by the assistants union, had been united, and they could close down "the great and profitable university" if it did not "concede to our demands." Actually, the new fuss had alerted most of Berkeley to the fact that the freedom of students and faculty-and the intellectual luster of the entire university-would certainly suffer unless order is maintained. The nonstudent thrill seekers had unwittingly strengthened...
...MiddleAged Delinquents." Next morning, a score of classes was canceled when teachers did not show up; about 2,000 students cut classes, and roughly 7,000 gathered in the rain for a noontime rally to cheer Savio's strike call. The rainfall and the imminence of this week's quarterly exams also contributed to the absences. The strike organizers demanded that Heyns, who flew back to the campus, promise never again to call police out to handle campus "political" problems, drop all charges against those arrested, accept an entirely new form of student government. Heyns, waiting for emotions...
...which seemed to fall on deaf ears. Said Non-Student Savio, as the strike continued: "We have gobs of great things popping up because only when we have palpable power will the university listen to our demands. We have power...