Word: savio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There were significant differences between last week's disorders and those of November-December 1964. Two years ago, well-organized campus rebels cleverly exploited broadly held malaise over the coldness of the "multiversity" to bring the school "to a grinding halt," as Savio put it. Last week the protesters were chaotic and focused on issues that were either trivial or phony-but the students, as though by reflex, were stirred up. "We have an emotional snowball on our hands," conceded Chancellor's Assistant John Searle...
Vicious Speech. This fall Chancellor Roger Heyns has been facing student pressures with a growing firmness. He refused to readmit Savio as a student when Savio broke rules against nonstudents distributing literature on campus. Heyns said that the students' public-address system in front of hallowed Sproul Hall disturbed classes, carried "speech that is often vicious, dishonest, laced with slander and character assassination and often charged with hatred," and proposed moving...
...trigger for a new tumult, activists lit on U.S. Navy recruiters manning tables inside the Berkeley student union. A nonstudent, anti-Viet Nam, anticonscription group called the Draft Information Committee set up a table next to the Navy recruiters. Campus police ordered it removed. A crowd appeared, including Savio and Communist Student Bettina Aptheker. A fist fight broke out between two students, which drew more spectators. Some set up picket lines around the Navy table, then sprawled on the floor when police said picketing inside was illegal...
...would be arrested if all would move on. Both offers were ignored. Several hours later, Executive Vice Chancellor Earl F. Cheit, filling in for Heyns, who was attending meetings at Harvard and Princeton, summoned about 100 campus and local police. Armed with warrants, they arrested six nonstudents, including Savio...
Students then took over the building, held a midnight meeting in the ballroom at which Cheit tried to defend use of the police and the table-manning rules, but drew hoots and jeers. His efforts were further squelched by cries of "Savio, Savio" as the former Free Speech leader, free on bail, arrived to take the stage, deliver a rambling plea for a student strike. Savio's wife Suzanne also showed up to urge a strike. On a quick show of hands, with no chance for a negative vote, the strike was approved. A closely divided student-government council...